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Among the better known of these non-vital ferments are rennet, the milk-curdling enzym; diastase or ptyalin of the saliva, the starch-converting enzym; pepsin and trypsin, the digestive ferments of the animal body.

Stat., Copenhagen, 1898) has devised a test whereby it can be determined whether this treatment has been carried out or not: Milk contains a soluble enzym known as galactase which has the property of decomposing hydrogen peroxid.

Conn[55] has separated the rennet enzym from bacterial cultures in a relatively pure condition, while Fermi[56] has isolated the digestive ferment from several species.

The cause of the decomposition of the casein, they found to be due to the action of a milk enzym which is inherent to the milk itself.

This ferment, called by them _galactase_, on account of its origin in milk, is a proteolytic enzym of the tryptic type.