Volume 1

Animal chemistry with reference to the physiology and pathology of man / by J. Franz Simon ; translated and edited by George E. Day.

  • Simon, Johann Franz, 1807-1843.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Animal chemistry with reference to the physiology and pathology of man / by J. Franz Simon ; translated and edited by George E. Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    I have much pleasure in presenting to the members of the Sydenham Society a translation of Simon’s ‘ Chemistry of Man/1 a work that obtained for its author a European repu- tation, and is universally regarded as by far the most complete treatise that has yet appeared on Physiological Chemistry. Until I became acquainted with this work in 1843, I enter- tained the idea of publishing a text-book of medical chemistry with the view of attempting to supply a deficiency in the medical literature of this country, which, I doubt not, has been felt by many of my brethren as much as by myself. But a careful perusal of the f Chemistiy of Man’ convinced me that I should be doing better service to the profession by undertaking a translation of that work than by the publication of a separate treatise. Impressed with this feeling I wrote to the author, who immediately offered me all the assistance in his power, and promised me a considerable amount of original matter. I regret to say that his early and unexpected death in the autumn of the same year rendered this promise of comparatively little value. I have, however, freely availed myself of the permission granted me by the Council of the Sydenham Society to insert such additions as the progress of chemistry, since the original 1 Physiologische und pathologische Anthropochemie mit Beriicksichtigung der eigentlichen Zoocheinic. Berlin, 1842. h