Chemistry in Medicine: Progress of Medicine with the Aid of Chemisty (A Cooperative Treatise to Give Examples of Progress Made in Medicine with the Aid of Chemistry)

This book is intended to present to the public as well as to the practitioners of medicine the great possibilities for advance in medical science through further intensive cooperation between chemistry and medicine. The impetus which has led to its preparation had its origin some years ago in the tragic loss of a beloved child, Patricia, by Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York City. Happy and in the best of health, the delight of her parents and of their friends, Patricia was stricken by rheumatic fever, following grippe, before which some of the best of the country's physicians drawn into consultation, confessed themselves utterly powerless.Within a week the bright little life was lost. Medicine had failed them in spite of the devotion of its practitioners and only because of the vast gaps in our knowledge of the ultimate causes of many diseases and of scientific methods to combat them. Further thought and conferences with scientific friends led to the conclusion that one of the most promising methods of insuring progress of medicine is to be found in cooperation of medicine with chemistry. CONTENTS: 1) The Significance of Chemistry and of its Methods of Attack on Fundamental Problems 2) Heredity and Development 3) The Human Body as a Machine 4) The Story of the Discovery of the Vitamins 5) The Conquest of Dietary Diseases 6) Chemical Regulators of the Body 7) The Policing of Civic Life in the Laboratory 8) The Alleviation of Suffering 9) The War on Invading Germs 9) A Hope of Mankind -Chemotherapy