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CHYLE AND LYMPH. 347
example of the composition of human chyle two analyses will be given.
The first is by Owen-Rees, of the chyle of an executed person, and the
second by Hoppe-Seyler, 1
of the chyle in a case of rupture of the thoracic
duct. In the latter case the fibrin had previously separated. The results
are in parts per 1000.
No. 1. No. 2.
Water 904.8 940.72 water
Solids 95.2 59.28 solids
Fibrin Traces
Albumin 70.8 36.67 albumin
Fat 9.2 7.23 fat
Remaining organic bodies. . . 10.8
Salts 4.4
2 . 35 soaps
0.83 lecithin
1 . 32 cholesterin
3 . 63 alcohol extractives
. 58 water extractives
J 6.80 soluble salts
i . 35 insoluble salts
The quantity of fat is very variable and may be considerably increased
by partaking of food rich in fats. I. Munk and A. Rosenstein 2
have
investigated the lymph or chyle obtained from a lymph fistula at the
end of the upper third of the leg of a girl eighteen years old and weigh-
ing 60 kg., and the highest quantity of fat in the chylous lymph was 47
p. m. after partaking of fat. In the starvation lymph from the same
patient they found only 0.6-2.6 p. m. fat. The quantity of soaps was
always small, and on partaking of 41 grams of fat the quantity of soaps was
only about 2V of the neutral fats. Schumm 3
found in the creamy
contents of a chylous cyst of the mesentery, 357.8 p. m. fat and compara-
tively large amounts of calcium soaps.
A great many analyses of chyle from animals have been made, and
they chiefly show the fact that the chyle is a liquid with a very changeable
composition which stands closely related to blood-plasma, but with the
principal difference that it contains more fat and less solids. The reader
is referred to special works for these analyses, as, for example, to v. Gorup-
Besanez’s " Lehrbuch der physiologischen Chemie," 4th edition.
The composition of the lymph is also very changeable, and its specific
gravity shows about the same variation as the chyle. In the following
analyses, 1 and 2, made by Gubler and Quevenne, are the results
obtained from lymph of the upper part of the thigh of a woman aged
thirty-nine; and 3, made by v. Scherer, is an analysis of lymph from
’Owen-Rees, cited from Hoppe-Seyler’s Physiol. Chem., 595; Hoppe-Seyler,
ibid., 597. See also Carlier, Brit. Med. Journ., 1902, 175, and T. Sollmann, Amer.
Journ. of Physiol., 17.
• Yirchow’s Arch., 123.
3
Zeitschr. f. physiol. Chem., 49.
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