Physical Chemistry in the Service of Medicine: Seven Addresses. Transl. M H Fischer. 1st ed.

181 Pages·1907·7.81 MB·English

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
IN THE
SERVICE OF MEDICINE
SEVEN ADDRESSES
BY
DR. WOLFGANG PAULI
Privatdoccnt inInternal Medicine' at the University vj Vienna
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY
DR. MARTIN H. FISCHER
Processor oj Pathology at the Oakland College of Medicine
FIAST EDITION
FIRST THOUSAND
NEW YORK
JOHN WILEY & SONS
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED
.
1907
Copyright, 1906
BY
MARTIN H. FISCHER
ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
THE addresses which have been collected for the
first time in this volume and which were delivered in
the main as summaries of my own special investigations
concern themselves with the application of physical
chemistry to different fields in medicine as rendered
possible more particularly through advances in the
physics and chemistry, of organic colloids. In that
questions in physiology as well as pathology and
pharmacology are touched upon, it m^y perhaps be
hoped that different circles of medical men may be
interested in the problems discussed in this volume.
The translated addresses differ in only a few unimpor-
tant abbreviations from the original. The development
of the guiding thought common to all of them stands
out quite clearly. Its foundation is the extensive
parallelism between the laws which govern changes in
the colloidal state in vitro and in the living organism.
Even though the future may become acquainted with
many a new fact through which the questions discussed
in this volume may be made to appear in a different
light, it will scarcely be possible to belittle the fruitful-
ness of the methods described and the stimulating effect
iii
iv AUTHORS PREFACE.
of the results obtained through them. Since all the
results that these methods can yield are as yet by no
means attained it is hoped that the volume may be
looked upon as a modest attempt to win friends capa-
ble of work in this still young field of labor.
WOLFGANG PAULI.
VIENNA, May if 1906.