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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463554703321

Autore

Holmes Frederic Lawrence

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 1974

©1974

ISBN

0-674-18499-8

Edizione

[Reprint 2014]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (563 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Commonwealth Fund Publications

Disciplina

612/.0092/4

Soggetti

Physiology, Experimental - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Commonwealth Fund book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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