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Manitobaof ; Biochemist, WinnipegUniversity
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Fourth Edition . 1940
Printed in Great BritainPREFACE TO THE FOURTH
EDITION
IT has seemed to us that a text topractical designed
be used in students should err if ontraining anything
the conservative old tested methodsside, preferring
rather than newer less tested and thusones, enabling
teachers to use the same ordered fromarrangement year
to until marked advances render this undesirable.year
We have therefore made few alterations in this edition.
Tne of certain exercises has been altered tosequence
tomake the order of 'treatment conform more closely
ofthe fifth edition the senior author's theoretical text.
Some of the less illustrative work has beenqualitative
while a number of tests have beenomitted, slightly
to render their the studentmodified, performance by
less to error.open any
wise to an account ofIt has seemed introduce the
while the estimationmicro-Kjeldahl technique, simple
of ascorbic acid has been introduced as tohelping
the student's of the ofstrengthen' conception reality
vitamins.
made to an accountNo has beenattempt incorporate
of the electrical instruments for measurement ofof any
or of the since it is feltphoto-electric colorimeters,joH,
that while these of can beexpensive types apparatus
demonstrated to there can be but fewstudents, yet
laboratories in which individual medical students are
to out with them.carrypermitted experiments
A. T. CAMERON.
F. D. WHITE.
WINNIPEG.PREFACE TO THE FIRST
EDITION
THIS book consists of a series of exercises todesigned
medical students in the teststrain andpractical pro-
cedures used in biochemical work. It is in no sense a
reference it should afford a useful intro-book, though
duction to the texts such as Hawk andlarger Bergeim's
"
ToPractical this we havePhysiological Chemistry."
indebted as a reference book bothbeen forespecially
and for clinical forpractical teaching procedures many
years.
of a course in PracticalThe purposes Biochemistry
as that in this volume should be insuch the firstgiven
to demonstrate the of aplace accuracy reasonably large
number of statements in lecture in thecourses,taught
second to afford some in the ofplace training technique
used in the and inthe procedures science,quantitative
the third to continue to inculcate those methodsplace
of scientific of andobservation, deduction,accuracy
inmeasurement which presumably previous training
has been in the more basic sciences ofgiven chemistry
and physics.
Such a course for medical students is cir-designed
cumscribed the more(and justifiably circumscribed) by
which their affords forlimited time curriculum the study
of than can be allowed in a sciencebiochemistry pure
and the of such ofcourse, by desirability utilising portions
suchthe and as have asubject procedures bearing upon
thetheir medical course and clinicalsubsequent applica-
of the Hence certain moretions subject. complex pro-
such asthe electrometricdetermination ofcedures, hydro-
have been excludedconcentration,gen-ion deliberately