Chemistry in Its Relations to Physiology And Medicine
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N0 5 to 100 of water) ; and by its swelling and becoming gelatinous, but not dissolving, in a moderately concentrated solution of carbonate of potash ; while it may be readily distinguished from the latter by the fact that it is precipitated from its alkaline solutions by the chlorides of sodium and potassium. That it is not iden- tical with blood-fibrin is also obvious from the results of its ultimate analysis. We are indebted to Liebig for the discovery that syntonin, which is the most import...ant constituent of the fibrillse of striated muscle, is chemically distinct from the fibrin of the blood. Lehmann has subsequently shown that it not only exists equally in the voluntary and involuntary (or smooth) muscles, but in all those tissues in which Kolliker's fibre-cells occur ; as, for instance, in the middle arterial coat and in the spleen. The fact that this substance is the principal constituent and * Derived from awrefaur, to render tense. CASEIN. 113 the essential basis of all the contractile tissues, seems sufficient to indicate its uses ; but how far, or why it is better qualified than the other protein-bodies for the manifestations of vital contractility, we cannot tell.
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