Principles of bio-chemistry for students of medicine, agriculture and related sciences / by T. Brailsford Robertson.

  • Robertson, T. Brailsford (Thorburn Brailsford), 1884-1930.
Date:
1924
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Credit: Principles of bio-chemistry for students of medicine, agriculture and related sciences / by T. Brailsford Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Growth to Diet. New sections have been added dealing with Race- mized Proteins, the Functions of the Nucleic Acids and the Inclusion of the Environment as a Factor in the Evolution of the Higher Animals. The chapter entitled “The Outlook” has not been revised in any way. As the panorama of scientific progress ceaselessly unrolls before us, we catch indistinct and shifting glimpses, here and there, of devel- opments which impend and of achievements which approximate ever more nearly to our powers. The vision differs with the beholder and with his situation in time, for it is inevitably but a series of fragments of a whole which does not yet admit of being conceived. What has been written in this chapter may therefore stand as well as any other forecast, as a statement of impressions received and hopes which appeared to be not wholly unwarranted at a particular stage in the development of our knowledge in this most fertile field of scientific endeavor. T. B. R. Adelaide, South Australia, 1924.