Some Vegetable Parasites

Some Additions to Our Vegetable Dietary

The Rotary Properties of Some Vegetable Proteids

So t~r as the writer has been able to ascertain, no reliable determinations have ever been made of the rotary properties of any of the vegetable proteids, although some of them can now be obtained in a pure state and in considerable quantities. The object of this investigation was to determine accurately the rotary power of some of the crystallized vegetable proteids. The globulin found in hemp...

Some Parasites of the Common Crow, Corvus

Thirty-one species of parasites were taken from 339 common crows over a twentymonth period in Ohio. Of these, nine are new host records: the cestodes Orthoskrjabinia rostellata and Hymenolepis serpentulus; the nematodes Physocephalus sexalatus, Splendidofilaria quiscali, and Splendidofilaria flexivaginalis; and the arachnids Laminosioptes hymenopterus, Syringophilus bipectinatus, Analges corvin...

Some pharmacological actions of cotton dust and other vegetable dusts.

Aqueous extracts of cotton and other vegetable dusts cause contraction of the isolated ileum and tracheal muscle of the guinea-pig, and of isolated human bronchial muscle. The levels of this contractor activity place the dusts of cotton, flax, and jute in the order of the probable incidence of byssinosis occurring in the mills spinning these fibres. Extracts of cotton dust possess a histamine-l...

Reassessment of Some Fruit and Vegetable Pectin Levels

Several reviews of pectin as a soluble fiber have included unreliable tables of pectin content for fruits and vegetables. Values given for ranges of pectin content in the fresh, edible portion are actually presented in original reports variously as peel pectin content, dry weight values, soluble rather than total pectins, and some values have been for unripe fruit. This has resulted in reportin...