The author of this volume presents the important subject of biochemistry from its practical view-point, and the book deals with applied biochemistry in its true sense. The subject is treated not only from the chemical side, but its physiological aspects are also fully discussed. The first chapter deals with "man and his environment" and in this the H-ion-concentration, its methods of determinat...

revised thoroughly. Some of the chapters have been entirely re-written and several additions such as the influence of some of the endocrine glands and vitamin B on carbohydrate metabolism, the biochemical aspects of vitamin deficiency, some of the aspects of mineral metabolism, etc., have been made. The change in the title of the book from ' Biochemistry in internal medicine' to ' Clinical Bioc...

This is followed by a symposium on cell-surface glycoconjugates, which includes discussions on expression of glycoproteins and glycosaminoglycans in a variety of experimental systems. The final section, entitled "Interactions of cells with their proximal environment," consists of papers on an in vitro assay for anti-cancer compounds, cell-cell interactions in different systems, and the role of ...

decorate his pages-Stearne, Dun, Petty, Cheyne, Graves, Stokes, Corrigan, all of Nvhom have earned undying fame. Professor Widdess gives short and sympathetic accounts of the lives and labours of all of these and several more. One of the most detailed of these concerns Sir Patrick Dun, and the strange history of his bequest to the College. It is interesting to note the long and friendly associa...