The Elements of physiological and pathological chemistry : a handbook for medical students and practitioners ... / by T. Cranstoun Charles.

  • T. Cranstoun Charles
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1884
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    further investigation of the chemical properties of these micro- zymes and their respective zymoses will shortly lead to a closer acquaintance with their mode of action, as well as to a know- ledge of how to stamp them out or to thwart their activity. And either to understand them or to be able effectually to counteract their virulence will demand a great increase upon our present knowledge of the chemistry of the body both in health and disease. In the following pages an attempt has been made to present the medical student and practitioner with an outline of the most important branches of physiological chemistry; but to render the work more complete, both for private study and for laboratory purposes, I have been compelled to introduce brief descriptions of such bodies as sugars, fats, and certain salts, &c., which are more approj)riately treated of in works upon general chemistry. I have treated my subject under four main heads :— Book I. Nutrition and Foods. „ II. Digestion and the Secretions concerned. „ III. 27ie Chemistry 0/ the 2'issues, Organs, and liernaining Secretions. ,, TV. 2'he Excreta : the Fo'ces and Urine. Every effort has been made to retider the work as practical as possible. I have accordingly confined myself chiefly to those parts of the subject which bear most directly upon ]>ractical medicine; and I feel sure that, by following the indications laid down throughout the book, effectual assistance will often be given to the physician in establishing the diagnosis as well as the etiology of many of the complicated diseases he may be called upon to treat or investigate. Temperatm'es have, with a few exceptions, been stated in centigrade degrees. A choice of methods and processes has generally been given, particularly when there is any difficulty to be overcome; and, when the importance of the subject
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