Practical Physiological Chemistry

Contents: Preface. 1. Hydrogen ion concentration. 2. Some physical properties of solutions. 3. Reactions of the carbohydrates. 4. Proteins. 5. Lipids: fats and associated substances: Bile. 6. The chemistry of some foods. 7. Digestion and the digestive enzymes. 8. The red blood corpuscles: pigments of blood and bile. 9. Urine: qualitative analysis. 10. Quantitative analysis: general technique. 11. Quantitative analysis of blood. 12. Quantities analysis of urine. 13. Detection of substances of physiological interest. Appendices. Index.

"Since then the chemical investigation of biological mechanisms as well as the methods employed in these investigations have advanced our knowledge to a degree that was scarcely even dreamed of 20 years ago.

We have retained the outlook on human physiology knowing that most students of that subject, if they with to learn about organisms other than man, must be prepared to study the wider field of comparative biochemistry and leave the conventional courts of medical study.

All the experiments detailed here we have been accustomed to find successful in the hands of students. The methods described are in our collective experience the most suitable for the student of physiology; they require simple apparatus, are not time-consuming and, in the hands of the average student, give satisfactory results." (jacket)