Paper, 'Some of the effects and chemical changes of sugar injected into a vein' by Vaughan Harley

Description

Harley writes: 'It being no longer doubted that sugar is essential to life, and it having been experimentally shown that the animal organism can form saccharine matter out of proteids, as well as carbohydrates, it becomes of importance to know what changes sugar undergoes in the body before its elements are finally eliminated. According to present knowledge, it is considered that by the three chemical processes of hydration, oxidation, and reduction, the molecule of sugar is changed into larger and smaller molecular groups, and that it is in the breaking down and building up of these that heat and vital energy are developed.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 13 June 1893 / 11 July 1893. Read 15 June 1893. Communicated by George Harley.

A version of this paper was published in volume 54 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Some of the effects and chemical changes of sugar injected into a vein'.

Reference number

PP/22/14

Earliest possible date

1893

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

18 pages

Format

Manuscript