Download or read book St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 35 written by John Zahorsky and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from St. Louis Courier of Medicine, Vol. 35: July-Dec., 1906 We are preeminently in the age of ferments. Human milk con tains several, but the actual purpose of them is not clear. There is enterokinase, the intestinal ferment that activates the pancreatic juice. A ferment exists in muscle and liver which, when combined with some substance from the pancreas, oxidizes sugar. The latest contribution to the ferments are agents that oxidize the purin bodies. Thus, a ferment which oxidizes xanthin into uric acid has been discovered, which Burian calls xantho-oxidase. Certain glands contain a ferment with the power of hydrolysing guanin into xanthin. According to Futcher, another oxidase has been discovered in the laboratory of Johns Hopkins. This has the power to decompose uric acid into the end products ready for excretion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.