Physical chemistry in the service of medicine : seven addresses / by Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, authorized translation by Dr. Martin H. Fischer.

  • Pauli, Wolfgang, 1869-1955.
Date:
1907
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    PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE SERVICE OF MEDICINE. I. On Physico-chemical Methods and Problems in Medicine.* The last decades have brought with them an amal- gamation of two sciences,—physics and chemistry,— which have no doubt always had mutual relations, although formerly these were not so intimate or extensive as they are now. This amalgamation was undoubtedly inaugurated through physics, and must be attributed primarily to the stimulus which brought with it the establishment of the laws of thermodynamics. I cannot here sketch even briefly the development of thermodynamics. As is well known, the law of the conservation of energy as most clearly enunciated by M \vi r forms its foundation. The remarkable experi- ments of Joule next led to an exact determination * t'ber physikalisch-chcmischo Methoden un<] Probleme in der Medicin, Wicn, iqoo, M. Perles. Address delivered to the A', k. Gcsrllschaft der Aerzic, Vienna, November 10, 1899.