Abstract
THE book before us would be more appropriately entitled physiological than bio-chemistry, as in its scope it is almost entirely limited to the elementary physiological chemistry usually taught to medical students. A short theoretical account of each subject precedes the practical work. Much of this is quite sound, but the text is frequently marred by looseness or inaccuracy of statement, which requires stringent revision before the book is placed in the hands of a student. Examples of this will be found in the account of the action of acids on soaps (p. 45), the precipitation of globulins (p. 24), the properties of the albumins (p. 16), and elsewhere. Again, histidine is omitted from the list of amino-acids derived from proteins, vitamin? is stated to be associated with the fatty radicles of milk, and so on.
A Laboratory Handbook of Bio-Chemistry.
By P. C. Raiment G. L. Peskett. Pp. 102. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1922.) 5s. net.
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H., A. A Laboratory Handbook of Bio-Chemistry . Nature 111, 181 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111181a0
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