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THIS is the fourth edition of a work which is based on lectures given to students of medicine. It is divided into six sections of which the first is introductory and physical, dealing with the conceptions of catalysis and hydrogen ion concentration. Section 2 describes the constituents of the food-stuffs, sugars, fats, proteins, etc. Section 3 treats with the chemistry of digestion, the circulation and the excreta, Section 4 with all that is comprised under the heading “Intermediate Metabolism”. Section 5 handles quantitative meta bolism, and the final section introduces the student to immunology and pharmacology. To do all this within the compass of 500 pages is a feat; at the same time one cannot help reflecting how much the medical student is expected to master, especially when some of the complex formulæ are examined. In this edition such subjects as the endocrine principles, the vitamins and the sterols have received increased attention as the knowledge of them has progressed. The author has wisely incorporated recent work even at the risk of seeing some of it retracted; in this connexion he might well have made reference to that of Hilditch on the constitution of the fats.
A Textbook of Biochemistry: for Students of Medicine and Science.
By Prof. A. T. Cameron. (Churchill's Empire Series.) Fourth edition. Pp. xi + 556 + 2 plates. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1933.) 15s.
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A Textbook of Biochemistry: for Students of Medicine and Science . Nature 133, 8 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133008c0
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