This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... lectuee vii excessive fermentation and putrefaction in the Digestive Tract (continued). The ethereal sulphates as evidence of intestinal putrefaction--Union of phenol, kresol, indol, and skatol with sulphuric acid--Amount of ethereal sulphates excreted in health and disease--Importance of the ratio of ethereal and preformed sulphuric acid--Evidence that the ethereal sulphates are derived from putrefactive decomposition of proteids in the intestine--Observation of Baumann--Intestinal disturbances and excessive putrefaction; influence of constipation and intestinal occlusion--Increase of ethereal sulphates due to putrefaction outside the gut or to use of aromatic drugs--Toxic action of aromatic products; influence of conjugation with sulphuric acid--Disappearance of preformed sulphates in poisoning by carbolic acid--Glycuronic acid--Phenol and kresol--Indol and indican--Whaconstitutes an excess of indican--Clinical states attended by excest sive indican in the urine--Probable influence of diminished secretion of hydrochloric acid and of the bile and pancreatic juice--Influence of the colon bacillus group--Toxic properties of indol; personal observations--Other products of proteid decomposition--Aromatic oxyacids--Hydrogen sulphide; conditions favouring its production--Cystinuria--Alkaptonuria--Neurin and cholin--Distinctions between septicemias and intoxications of gastro-intestinal origin--Botulism--Treatment of excessive fermentation and putrefaction in the digestive tract--Importance of hygienic measures--Intestinal antiseptics. This morning I intend to tell you something about the different types of putrefaction that occur in the human intestine, and also something about the relation of these different kinds of putrefaction to various...