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PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION. 



AFTER the appearance of the first Swedish edition of this text- 

 book, I was asked by several co-laborers abroad to provide a German 

 translation, which was at that time impossible, for several reasons. 

 But I found it very difficult to decline a similar proposal which I 

 received from many colleagues after the second edition appeared. 



I yielded, therefore, to their expressed wishes ; but I found after 

 a time that it was impossible to obtain a translator in this special 

 province of science, notwithstanding the unwearied exertions of my 

 publisher. Nothing remained for me but to undertake the trans- 

 lation myself ; hence I ask the reader's indulgence for possible 

 idiomatic or orthographic errors. 



Specialists will at once perceive that the book before us is not 

 a complete or detailed text-book. My intention was merely to 

 supply students and physicians with a condensed and as far as pos- 

 sible objective representation of the principal results of physiologico- 

 chemical research and also with the principal features of physio- 

 logico-chemical methods of work. It seems to me that I have 

 followed a common, practical, even if not strictly correct usage in 

 allowing space in this book to the more important pathologico- 

 chemical facts, although I have given the book the title Text- 

 book of Physiological Chemistry. 



The arrangement of subject-matter, which deviates considerably 

 from that generally followed in text-books, was caused by the 

 manner in which physiological chemistry is studied in Sweden. 

 Here physiologico- and pathologico-chemical laboratory practice is 

 obligatory for all students of medicine. In the arrangement of 

 such practical work I continually kept in view that it should not 



