PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 

 IN MODKRN MEDICINE 



PART I 



THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL BASIS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL 



PROCESSES 



CHAPTER I 

 GENERAL « 0NSIDERATIO1 



The work of the physiologisl consists, in larf t, in as 



whal extenl the known laws of physics and chemistry 

 in explaining the phenomena of lit'.-. 11. gatl 

 house of physical and chemical knowledge wi 

 interpretation of the various mechanisms thai w 

 pose the Living machine, and having added to tins k 



it on for use by those who ar< ncerned in th< 



disease. 



Many of tin 1 most importanl steps in the ad 



knowledge in r ill years have depended upi 



hitherto unknown physical or chemical law, or upon th< 



some accurate method for the measurement 



which these or previously known laws d< 



van't Hoff, Arrhenius, and Ostwald of th< 



were Boon followed by important obe 



the movemenl of fluids and dissolv< 



branes; the discos eriea of Hardy, \\ 



colloids and of the phenomena 



explaining many hitherto inexplic 



ferments; the die x 



of the electro mol ive for 



termine the actual 



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