Claude Bernard and Animal Chemistry : : The Emergence of a Scientist / / Frederic Lawrence Holmes.

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• VerfasserIn: Holmes, Frederic Lawrence,
• MitwirkendeR: Fruton, Joseph S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1974
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Commonwealth Fund Publications ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- 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