各種 Alcohol の栄養価並にその肝 Glycogen に及ぼす影響

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It has not been much studied yet whether lower alcohols are nutritious or not, or how poisonous they are when they are given to animals. We made a certain kind of non-carbohydrate food and added to it 10 or 20 percent of alcohol of carbonic number 1-10. This was given to some white rats and the change in their weight was examined together with the increase and decrease in the quantity of liver glycogen.
As a result of the experiment it was found that those rats which had been given the food of the higher carbonic number got more body weight, and that the quantity of liver glycogen was the smaller with the increase of their weight, and that the lesser the increase in weight was, the larger the quantity of glycogen was.
When vitamin was eliminated from the alcoholic food, the rats died in five or six days. In this case no glycogen was left in the liver.