DISCUSSION: CHANGES IN DOMESTIC DEMAND FOR FOOD: IMPACTS ON SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE

Demand and Price Analysis,

A contribution to the chemical pathology of the lipoids

From the biological, and especially medical, point of view no class of substances has in recent years grown so rapidly in importance as the lipoide. The purely chemical investigation of these substances has been carried on by numerous observers since the middle of last Century, but it is only during the last twenty years, and especially the last ten, that any great progress has been made. At the present day we know thoroughly the constitution of several important lipoide and we are able, in a general way, to make a reasonable classification of those which are less well known.Mayer and Overton's theory of narcosis, the explanation of the pharmacology of many drugs, and the numerous physiological theories dependant upon the physics of a cell membrane have all helped to increase the importance of a thorough knowledge of the lipoide in physiology, and have stimulated numerous researches, but the role played by these substances in pathological processes remains almost uninvestigated