Abstract
THIS volume a product of the experience gained in teaching medieal students in the University of Edinburgh and deals with practical chemistry for such students from A to Z. General scientific method is first discussed in a manner which should go far to explaining to the dullest student exactly why he is performing an experiment, and indeed why experiments are ever performed. There follows a general account of practical methods such as heating and cooling, production of reduced pressures, crystal lization, weighing, etc., in fact all those operations which must first be mastered by a student. The later parts of the book deal with general and physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry and organic chem istry systematically, all treated from the point of view of the medical student. Throughout, great stress is laid on the methods of recording experimental results and of note-taking-topics on which most students are lamentably ignorant. Altogether the work seems to accomplish what it sets out to do in a very efficient manner.
Practical Chemistry
For Medical Students. By William Klyne. Pp. xvi + 460. (Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone, Ltd., 1946.) 20s. net.
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Practical Chemistry. Nature 158, 814 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158814d0
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