Abstract
THIS volume is the latest of the series that Mr. Murray is issuing in connection with the work of the physiological laboratory of the London University. The subject Dr. Leathes took for his lectures is perhaps the most important one in the whole of chemical physiology. In a study of metabolism one seeks to understand the innermost workings of the living cells, and thus to comprehend the sum total of the chemistry of life. In order, however, to pave the way for such complete knowledge it is necessary to study individual chemical reactions, the items that go to form the final sum; and so in the interesting book Dr. Leathes has produced he is mainly concerned with a separate consideration of the way in which the carbohydrates, fats, and proteids are utilised, and finally catabolised.
Problems in Animal Metabolism.
By J. B. Leathes. Pp. viii + 205. (London: John Murray, 1906.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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H., W. Problems in Animal Metabolism . Nature 74, 349–350 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074349a0
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