A view of the progress and present state of animal chemistry / Translated from the Swedish, by G. Brunnmark.

  • Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, friherre, 1779-1848
Date:
1818
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Credit: A view of the progress and present state of animal chemistry / Translated from the Swedish, by G. Brunnmark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with regard to the manner in which 1 have endeavoured to treat the subject of Animal Chemistry, it has been altogether different from that of my predecessors, who, considering it as a part of general chemical know ledge, have all di¬ vided the productions of the animal ])ody into cer¬ tain classes, and described them only as objects of anal^dical chemistry, to w hich they have added an appendix, wdth some general reflections on the economy of animal life. But this mode of treat¬ ing Animal Chemistry is altogether w ithout an object, and gives to the results of chemical in¬ vestigations, little more than a technical value, which, how ever, is entirely foreign to Animal Chemistry, properly so called. For my part, I liave endeavoured to unite chemical and ana¬ tomical researches in the pursuit of one common object, in order thus to gi^•e,to the investigation of the Animal Chemist, a determined and scien¬ tific tendency, and to his eflbrts, a physiological view. As my predecessors have not alw^ays be¬ gun from the same poiiit, or taken their aim in the same direction, it has hajipened, that much Iras been overlooked by them, which might have been found wdthout difficulty, and thereby I have been enabled, in the experiments which T have