Abstract
THE principal author of the volume under notice, who is a physiologist, states in his preface that he is principally interested in the colloid chemistry of the proteins, that this is too complex for direct analysis, and that therefore he turned to the soaps, as sufficiently analogous to the proteins in their colloidal behaviour to enable one “from the surer ground of the soaps … to step over into the more slippery one of the proteins.” This view of the possibilities of reasoning by analogy will strike most people as decidedly light-hearted, even in cases where the results to be thus applied are unassailable, a condition which cannot be claimed for the author's views on the nature of soap-liquid systems.
Soaps and Proteins: Their Colloid Chemistry in Theory and Practice.
By Prof. M. H. Fischer and others. Pp. ix + 272. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 24s. net.
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Soaps and Proteins: Their Colloid Chemistry in Theory and Practice . Nature 110, 70–71 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110070b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110070b0
