A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid.
Defn: A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid.
Defn: Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.
Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine.
Uric and hippuric acids are found in the urine of carnivora and herbivora, respectively, as the result of the healthy wear (disassimilation) of nitrogenous tissues.
Any disorder leading to impaired functional activity of the lungs is causative of an excess of hippuric acid and allied bodies, of oxalic acid, of sugar, etc.
In the herbivora the nitrogenous waste takes the form of another body called hippuric acid.
In man, in addition to the urea excreted, there is also a little hippuric and uric acid or compounds of these.
This is due to the conversion of urea into carbonate of ammonia; and the same change takes place, though more slowly, with uric and hippuric acids.
If forty grains of dry Phosphate of Soda, seven grains of Uric acid, and fifteen of Hippuric acid, be dissolved in a pint of hot water, and to this solution two per cent.
Benzoic and Cinnamic acids are converted into Hippuric acid, which passes out in the urine.
It resembles Benzoic, and undergoes the same change intoHippuric acid.
He also considers Hippuric acid to be an invariable ingredient in healthy human urine.
Hippuric acid, on the other hand, is most abundant when the animal is fed on hay and straw.
The following table after Tereg[1] gives the different conditions of the urine, and especially the amount of urea and hippuric acid under different rations.
Johnson, the different kinds of nitrogen experimented with being uric acid, hippuric acid, and guanine.
These are chiefly found in the urine, such as urea, uric and hippuric acids, and ammonia salts.
More recently, however, Dr Hampe has carried out experiments with urea, uric acid, hippuric acid, and glycocoll.
The very fact that we are in possession of an efficient process for converting poisonous benzoic acid into harmless hippuric acid indicates that there is a necessity for doing so.
In point of fact, substances present in many ordinary foodstuffs are converted within the human body first into benzoic acid and then into hippuric acid.
It suggests that even the small quantities of benzoic acid which we get with unadulterated food, or produce within ourselves, might be deleterious to health except for the saving hippuric acid forming process.
The hippuric acid in the urine acts as a stimulant and disinfectant to the urinary mucous membrane.
When administered internally, it causes the appearance of hippuric acid in the urine.
The classical experiments of Bunge and Schmiedeberg(15)[A] on the synthesis of hippuric acid are of interest in this regard.
The urine of horses or cows, left to itself for some time, or evaporated at a boiling temperature, yields not a trace of hippuric acid, but only benzoic acid.
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