On the gastric digestion of proteids / by A. Lockhart Gillespie.

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[1892?]
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    ON THE GASTRIC DIGESTION OF PROTEIDS. By A. Lockhart Gillespie, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Medical Registrar, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The following paper has been partly extracted from a thesis presented to the University of Edinburgh for the degree of M.D. in August 1892, and for which a gold medal was awarded to the author. A summary of the results was read before the Biological Section of the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science (Edinburgh meeting) in the same month, of which very condensed abstracts were printed in the Proceedings of the Association and in the Medical Press and Circular. The experiments on which the observations rest were performed in the Laboratory of. the Royal College of Physicians, Edin- burgh, and to the Laboratory Committee of the College my best thanks are due for the liberality displayed to me, and particularly to the Superintendent, Dr Noel Paton, for his ready help when I happened to be in difficulties. My object throughout has been to endeavour to elucidate some of the problems presented b}^ the gastric digestion of proteids. A great part, therefore, of my work has been directed towards the relations between hydrochloric acid and proteid substances. That some kind of combination could exist between this acid and proteids has been known for some time. Danilewsky,^ Richet,^ Leo,^ and Ewald^ have demonstrated its existence, and more lately Hayem^ and Winter have placed the subject on a more satisfactory footing. I have elsewhere^ called the combinations between HCl and proteids Proteid-hydrochlorides, and this term I shall continue to use throughout this paper. ^ Centralhlattfur med. Wissenschaft, 1888. ^ Sur le sue gastrique chez riiomme et les animaux, 1878. ^ Centralhlatt fur med. Wissenschaft, 1889. ^ Virchow Archiv, xc., ci., civ. ® Du chimisme Stomacale, 1891. ® Medical Press and Circular, August 1892. (5,