Physical Chemistry, and its Applications in Medical and Biological Science

Abstract

THIS little book makes its appearance at an opportune moment, for no one engaged in biological work can now neglect the teachings of physical chemistry, and the great influence which this branch is exercising on the development of the biological sciences. It is just the sort of work the physiologist, pathologist, bacteriologist, and scientific medical practitioner need—brief and at the same time dealing in a simple manner with fundamental facts. The author thus reviews diffusion, osmosis, cryoscopic methods, and the study of osmotic pressures in plants and animals, chemotaxis, the theory of ionisation and its application to the germicidal action of disinfectants, the permeability of membranes and the influence of this on secretion, the velocity of reactions, catalysis, colloidal solutions, and the bearing of physical chemistry on serum therapy, in which connection the work of Ehrlich, Arrhenius, and Madsen is briefly reviewed. Altogether this book supplies a decided want, and can be thoroughly recommended.

Physical Chemistry, and its Applications in Medical and Biological Science.

By Dr. Alex. Findlay. Pp. 68. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905.) 2s. net.