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Excerpt from On the Chemical Constitution of the Bile
The soda, with which the glyco-cholic and tauro-cholic acids are united in the bile, is believed to be derived almost altogether from the chloride of sodium of the ingesta. Thisis decomposed in the stomach, the chlorine uniting with the hydrogen of water, and form ing hydrochloric acid (the essential acid of digestion), and the so dium laying hold of the oxygen, and furnishing the soda for the bile.
Granted that the glyco-cholic and tauro-cholic acids are conju gated compounds, we are broughtto the consideration of the gly cine, taurine, and cholic acid, the most important inquiries being as to their source and mode of formation. Indeed, to succeed in this would be to answer the vital question relating to the chemistry of the bile. Before entering upon this, perhaps it would be well to make a brief examination of some of the physical properties of these interesting substances. Lehmann's great work on physio logical chemistry being mainly relied upon as authority.
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