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WHILST modern chemical literature is abundantly supplied with publications on the analysis of mineral substances, works on the methods of chemical investigation of the products of animal life are comparatively few. Physiological chemistry is still in its infancy. By far the greatest number of the substances occurring in the animal body have as yet to be discovered, and even those already known exhibit but in few instances such characteristic reactions as serve for their detection and quantitative estimation equal in reliability to those we find in mineral chemistry. But however incomplete the analytical methods of the physiological chemist may be, they are highly valuable, not merely from a scientific, but also from a practical point of view, inasmuch as they aid the physician in the detection of those important changes in the chemical composition of animal fluids and excreta, which almost invariably accompany certain forms of disease. The scientific man as well as the medical practitioner will, therefore, take an equal interest in the re-publication in an enlarged form of a work on the application of chemical analysis to physiology and pathology, which has proved very valuable in its former editions.
F. Hoppe-Seyler. Handbuch der physiologischen u. pathologischen Analyse.
Third edition. (Berlin, 1870.)
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FINKELSTEIN, B. F. Hoppe-Seyler. Handbuch der physiologischen u. pathologischen Analyse. Nature 2, 5 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002005a0
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