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THIS modern branch of treatment is based upon organic chemistry, and in the synthetic preparation of remedies a knowledge of the relationship between chemical constitution and physiological action is obviously necessary. This knowledge, however, is not so advanced that it is possible to foretell what change in a drug's action will be produced by the introduction into it, or the removal from it, of certain organic radicals (alkyls, carboxyl, etc.). Certain chemists take a different view, and hold that data have sufficiently accumulated to warrant such predictions, and the little book under review is written from that point of view.
Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action.
By Prof. L. Spiegel. Translated, with additions, from the German by Dr. C. Luedeking and A. C. Boylston. Pp. iv + 155. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 5s. net.
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H., W. Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action . Nature 96, 675 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/096675c0
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