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THIS is a sound and clearly written text-book which should prove useful to students beginning physiology. The opening chapters, of an introductory character, are advisedly concerned with a plain description of surface phenomena, colloids, permeability, dissociation, and the action of enzymes; the student may already be conversant with these aspects of physical chemistry, but his interest will be maintained by the well-chosen biological examples. Equipped with these elements of physical chemistry, the reader is better able to appreciate the actual physical and chemical basis of the processes underlying vital phenomena.
Essentials of General Physiology.
By Prof. Eric Ponder. Pp. viii + 497. (New York, London and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 15s. net.
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Essentials of General Physiology . Nature 125, 232 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125232b0
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