Abstract
Recent work on the chemistry of the proteid molecule has furnished explanation of many biological phenomena. Thus in certain pathological conditions there appears in the urine a sulfur and nitrogen containing substance, cystin. The source of this substance in the organism had been unknown until, through the efforts of Mörner and Embden, and others, its radical was demonstrated to be a normal constituent of the proteid molecule.
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