Respitory proteids : researches in biological chemistry / A.B. Griffiths.

  • Arthur Bower Griffiths
Date:
1897
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Credit: Respitory proteids : researches in biological chemistry / A.B. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that their full philosophical significance was realised. This is only another way of saying that the imagination is, after all, the most precious faculty with which a scientist can be equipped. It is a risky possession, it is true, for it leads him astray a hundred times for once that it conducts him to truth; but without it he has no chance at all of getting at the meaning of the facts he has learned or discovered. The present work gives an account of recent researches in biological chemistry, and special details are given of the respiratory proteids (coloured and colourless) in the blood of animals. I am of the opinion that there are many proteids of a respiratory function in the blood of animals, and my own investigations (communicated to the Academic cles Sciences de Petris) support that opinion. It appears that the advance which we have already accomplished in chemico-biology, in- stead of narrowing actually expands the fields which remain for us to occupy. If Science means the interpretation of the universe, its