Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Text-Book of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry
Professor Bunge's Lectures on Physiological Chemistry have had a great influence on physiological thought both here and abroad. Representing as they do the ideas which have produced throughout many years discoveries of fundamental importance in the school of Schmiedeberg, they have served to spread the method of thought of that school and to render more effective the work of men in other laboratories. Among these researches, I might especially mention those of Schmiedeberg alone or in conjunction with his pupils on the mechanism of oxidation in the body, on the occurrence of synthetic processes in the body (e.g., the synthesis of hippuric acid in the kidney, worked out by Bunge and Schmiedeberg), Schroder's work on the formation of urea, Minkowski and Naunyn on uric acid, Minkowski on the production of diabetes by extirpation of the pancreas, besides researches into the chemistry of nucleins, of chondrin, the mucins (Leathes), and many other subjects of bio-chemical interest.
These Lectures have also the merit of being written by a man who was philosopher, mathematician and chemist before he was a physiologist, and who, being thus in a position to grasp the general bearings of his subject, has succeeded in making the dry bones of physiological chemistry interesting even to the beginner.
It was with great pleasure that I undertook to edit a new translation by my wife of the latest German Edition, as I consider it eminently desirable that these suggestive Lectures should be available for those students and medical men who are not familiar with German.
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