Chemie der Fette, Lipoide und Wachsarten

Abstract

A NOTABLE feature of this work is the amount of consideration given to the physiological chemistry of the fats, and to the general chemistry of the lipoids. The question of the origin of fat in the animal body is of much interest and importance; and in the earlier chapters of the first volume Dr. Glikin gives an account of the experimental evidence on which arguments have been based to show that the fat of the animal body may be produced from fat ingested as food, or elaborated from proteid substances, or from carbohydrates. Doubtless the accounts of the experiments are often ancient history, going back, as they do, to researches of Hoppe-Seyler in 1859, of Pettenkofer and Voigt in 1869, and to various controversies in subsequent years. They serve, however, to give a connected survey of the whole matter.

Chemie der Fette, Lipoide und Wachsarten.

By Dr. W. Glikin. Erster Band: pp. xvi + 789; Zweiter Band: pp. xi + 788. (Leipzig: Gebrder Borntraeger, 1913.) Price, 2 vols., 72 marks.