Chemistry and medicine
Subtitle: papers presented at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medical school of the University of Minnesota
By: edited by Maurice B. Visscher ...
Contributors: Visscher, Maurice Bolkes, 1901-,
Publisher: University of Minnesota press
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Chemistry, Physiological; Medicine
Notes: "References" at end of each paper except two.
Table of contents: value: pt. I. Progress in the application of physical chemistry to medicine: Some aspects of the colloid chemistry of membranes, by Herbert Freundlich.  The performance of osmotic work in living systems, by M.B. Visscher.  Some reactions by which solutes may be differentially concentrated by the Kidney, by J.P. Peters.-  pt. II. Some recent investigations in metabolism: Organic chemistry in the pursuit of vitamin research, by L.I. Smith.  On the necessity of fats in the diet, by G.O. Burr.  Heparin and thrombosis, by C.H. Best.-  pt. III. Some aspects of immunity and chemotherapy: Recent chemical trends in the stury of immunity, by Michael Heidelberger.  The biology of animal viruses, by R.G. Green.  The mode of action of sulfanilamide and its derivatives, by P.H. Long.  Chemistry in urinary antisepsis, by H.F. Helmholz.-  pf. IV. Some approaches to the mechanism of convulsive reactivity, by Irvine McQuarrie. Methods of analysis of nervous action, by H.S. Gasser.  The nervous regulation of visceral processes, by D.W. Bronk.  The argument for chemical mediation of nerve  impulses, by W.B. Cannon.