A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher SchoolsBlaisdell, Albert F. (Albert Franklin)
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A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
Blaisdell, Albert F. (Albert Franklin)
Human physiology; Physiology
Experiment 74. Filter _A_, and carefully neutralize the filtrate with
very dilute hydrochloric or acetic acid, equal to a precipitate of
alkali-albumen. Filter off the precipitate, and on testing the
filtrate, peptones are found. The intermediate bodies, the albumoses,
are not nearly so readily obtained from pancreatic as from gastric
digests.
Experiment 75. Filter _B_ and _C_, and carefully neutralize the
filtrates. They give no precipitate. No peptones are found.
Experiment 76. _To show the action of pancreatic juice upon the
albuminous ingredients (casein) of milk_. Into a four-ounce bottle put
two tablespoonfuls of cold water; add one grain of Fairchild’s extract
of pancreas, and as much baking soda as can be taken up on the point of
a penknife. Shake well, and add four tablespoonfuls of cold, fresh
milk. Shake again.
Now set the bottle into a basin of hot water (as hot as one can
bear the hand in), and let it stand for about forty-five minutes.
While the milk is digesting, take a small quantity of milk in a
goblet, and stir in ten drops or more of vinegar. A thick curd of
casein will be seen.
Upon applying the same test to the digested milk, no curd will be
made. This is because the pancreatic ferment (trypsin) has digested
the casein into “peptone,” which does not curdle. This digested
milk is therefore called “peptonized milk.”
Experiment 77. _To show the action of bile_. Obtain from the butcher
some ox bile. Note its bitter taste, peculiar odor, and greenish color.
It is alkaline or neutral to litmus paper. Pour it from one vessel to
another, and note that strings of mucin (from the lining membrane of
the gall bladder) connect one vessel with the other. It is best to
precipitate the mucin by acetic acid before making experiments; and to
dilute the clear liquid with a little distilled water.
Experiment 78. _Test for bile pigments_. Place a few drops of bile on a
white porcelain slab. With a glass rod place a drop or two of strong
nitric acid containing nitrous acid near the drop of bile; bring the
acid and bile into contact. Notice the succession of colors, beginning
with green and passing into blue, red, and yellow.
Experiment 79. _To show the action of bile on fats_. Mix three
teaspoonfuls of bile with one-half a teaspoonful of almond oil, to
which some oleic acid is added. Shake well, and keep the tube in a
water-bath at about 100° F. A very good emulsion is obtained.
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