Researches on the nature of the normal destruction of sugar in the animal system / by Frederick William Pavy.

  • Pavy, F. W. (Frederick William), 1829-1911.
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[1855]
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    RESEARCHES ON THE NATURE OF THE NOEMAL DESTRUCTION OF SUGAR ANIMAL SYSTEM. By FREDERICK WILLIAM PAVY, M.D., Londin. In the last number of the late series of the ' Guy's Hospital Reports/ (October, 1853), we published a paper on the ' Physiological Relations of Saccharine Matter in the Animal Economy.' The experiments that had been made up to that time, enabled us to say but little concerning the destruction of sugar in the animal system. Indeed, the following passage (pp. 343, 344) will show the state of uncertainty under which we wrote at that period. There seems, therefore, something besides the mere chemical action of aeration required to eflPect the destruction of saccharine matter in the animal economy; but what this something is, remains yet to be determined by further experimental investigation. Since then, our re- searches have been continued, and have led, we think, to the discovery of some important conclusions, which are advanced in the following communication, that may hence be regarded as the sequel of our previous pubHcation on this subject. Saccharine and amylaceous substances form an exceedingly large constituent of the alimentary materials that are derived from the vegetable kingdom. When these are ingested or received into the alimentary tract, the former, is directly ab- sorbed by the venous radicles of the portal system, and con- veyed to the capillaries of the liver, whence it is poured