1st Edition

Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry

By Louis Rosenfeld Copyright 1999
578 Pages
by CRC Press

580 Pages
by Routledge

The origin and early years of any rapidly changing scientific discipline runs the risk of being forgotten unless a record of its past is preserved. In this, the first book-length history of clinical chemistry, those involved or interested in the field will read about who and what went before them and how the profession came to its present state of clinical importance. The narrative reconstructs... Read more
1. Anatomy, Disease and Therapy 2. Protein and Food Shortage 3. Library Medicine, Bedside Medicine and the Stigma of Dissection 4. Introduction to Physiological Chemistry 5. The Flexner Report and Medical School Reform 6. Cholesterol 7. Cholera, Acidosis, and Fluid-Electrolyte Therapy in 1832 8. Early Development and Use of the Microscope 9. Clinical Chemistry Laboratory (1925-1960)

Biography

Rosenfeld, Louis