Abstract
BEYOND a short chapter with general statements concerning colloids, nucleoproteids and lipoids, and a chapter insisting upon the specificity of the chemistry of living animals and plants, chemistry plays no more part in the arguments of the authors of “La Chimie et la Vie” than many other sciences. The authors do not deal with pure chemistry, but with chemical physics—the object of which is to determine the influence exerted by physical conditions such as pressure, temperature and concentration of solutions on the progress or change of direction of chemical reactions. They object to the tendency to localise the various properties of plants and animals to particular chemical substances, and suggest that ferments, hormones, antibodies, etc., may not be specific substances so numerous and varied as the effects they produce; but they may be, on the contrary, various methods of activity of a limited number of substances resulting for the most part from the disintegration of living matter.
La Chimie et la Vie.
By Georges Bohn Dr. Anna Drzewina. (Bibliothèque de Philosophic scientifique.) Pp. 275. (Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1920.) Price 7.50 frs. net.
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La Chimie et la Vie . Nature 110, 173–174 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110173a0
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