On the animal alkaloids : the ptomaïnes, leucomaïnes, and extractives in their pathological relations / by Sir William Aitken.

Date:
1889
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Credit: On the animal alkaloids : the ptomaïnes, leucomaïnes, and extractives in their pathological relations / by Sir William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE 1. Chemical and physiological aspect of the sulject:—Nomen- clature and meaning of terms—Discovery of Animal Alka- loids—Elaboration of alkaloids through decomposition of proteid substances (ptomaines)—Through normal cell-life (leuoomaiaes)—Elaboration of azotised crystallisable sub- stances (extractives)—Their toxic properties—Similarity of Animal and Vegetable Alkaloids—Poisonous nature of Peptones—Leuoomaines the necessary products of vital physiological processes—Synthetical formation of some organic bodies—Continuous formation of poisonous alka- loids in the intestines, the urine, and the tissues generally— Classification and chemical constitution of some of the physiological alkaloids . . . . . . . ,1—^16 2. Olinical, pathological, and practical aspects of the subject:— Poisonous character of ptomaines and leucomaines—Patho- logy and symptoms of poisoning by extractives and by animal alkaloids—Poisoning by the accumulation of nor- mally elaborated but toxic products—Origin in this way of soma constitutional diseases—Constant exposure to auto- infection—Physiological pathology of fatigue and fatigue- fever—Discovery of anthropotoxine by Du Bois-Raymond— The typhus of armies and of camps—Alkaloids in bodies dead of typhus fever—De novo origin of typhus—Circum- stances under which typhus has arisen in epidemics—Typho- toxin from cases of enteric fever—Elaborate arrangements for removal of its waste products in the living body . 16—37