Laboratory Work in Physiological Chemistry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Laboratory Work in Physiological Chemistry

This edition is greatly enlarged and indeed wholly re-written. The directions for laboratory work cover the three great food-stuffs, and the fluids and secretions of the body. Brief explanatory descriptions of the various substances and secretions studied are added in order to give the student a better survey of the subject matter as a whole.

Every medical student should receive thorough drill in the laboratory, not merely in so-called urine analysis, but in the broader field of physiological chemistry. He should be taught to observe and to reason; to correlate the facts brought out in the laboratory in their relation to physiology, hygiene and disease. These notes have been prepared with the object of furthering such study, and it is hoped that they will prove as useful to others as to the author's own classes in the University of Michigan. The experimental work laid down in the following pages has been repeatedly verified in actual student work and the directions given are such as to insure results. The author's classes devote the entire afternoon, daily, for three months to this work. Even with this amount of time at their disposal certain parts of physiological chemistry must be left untouched.

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