Claude Bernard and animal chemistry : the emergence of a scientist / Frederic Lawrence Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Frederic Lawrence, author.

Series:

Commonwealth Fund Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernard, Claude, 1813-1878.

Bernard, Claude.

Physiology, Experimental--History.

Physiology, Experimental.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (563 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry".

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword / Fruton, Joseph S.

Preface

I. Chemists, Physiologists, the Problem of Nutrition

II. Paris and Giessen at Odds

III. The Debate over the Source of Animal Fat

IV. The French Chemists on the Defensive

V. The Persistence of Jean-Baptiste Boussingault

VI. Origins of Claude Bernard's Research in Animal Chemistry

VII. The Investigation of Digestion, 1750-1830

VIII. The Pepsin Theory

IX. French Investigations of Digestion

X. Bernard's First Theory of Gastric Digestion

XI. Bernard and Barreswil in a Busy Field

XII. Scientific Imagination Confronted by Experimental Complexity

XIII. Herbivorous and Carnivorous Nutrition-a Success amid Further Setbacks

XIV. Claude Bernard and Louis Mialhe

XV. A New Look at Old Projects

XVI. The Persistence of Claude Bernard

XVII. The Pancreatic Juice: "A Different Field of Activity"

XVIII. The Search for Sugar

XIX. The Source of Sugar in Animals

XX. Conclusion

Appendices. Abbreviations Used in Bibliography and Notes. Bibliography. Notes. Index

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

"A Commonwealth Fund book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-18499-8

OCLC:

979880462