Textbook of Biochemistry. Third edition (Harrow, Benjamin)

Textbook of Biochemistry

This book was originally written as a biochemistry textbook for medical, dental, agricultural, and general college students. The present edition is a marked improvement over the first in that a number of errors have been corrected and much worthwhile additional material has been included. The book is outstanding in its simplicity. Facts are stated clearly and concisely, with detailed discussion...

Textbook of Biochemistry

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves that we are underlings." The words of Shakespeare are not dimmed for us. In some respects we are nearer to the thought of his day than we like to admit, for the cults of astrology, numerology and their ilk still find ready adherents. The superstitions of the ball diamond seem to amuse us but it is disappointing to find counterpart...

A Textbook of Biochemistry

(page 62) we are told that both hyaline and white fibrous cartilage enter into the formation of a joint, but nowhere is cartilage of any type described. Again (page 6) the single sentence under the heading, Formation of Bone, viz., "the replacement of cartilage by bone cells," must have been inserted more for the purpose of reviving the memory than for the description of a process. The section ...

Textbook of Biochemistry

A Textbook of Biochemistry

This new textbook is the outcome of the immense strides made in the subject of biochemistry in the last few years. No one at the present time is capable of writing intimately on all branches of the subject. The book containing thirty different chapters includes twenty odd different contributors each one a master in his own field. The field covered is extremely comprehensive and includes new dev...