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The Elements of Medical Chemistry: Embracing Only Those Branches of Chemical Science which Are Calculated to Illustrate or Expla

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Elements of Medical Chemistry: Embracing Only Those Branches of Chemical Science which Are Calculated to Illustrate or Expla
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Ayrton Paris
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:636
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreChemistry
ISBN/Barcode 9781108069908
ClassificationsDewey:615.19
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 70 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 24 April 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856), several of whose other medical and popular works have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, published the first edition of his Pharmacologia in 1812. It was immediately successful, and went into eight further editions until 1843. The third edition, of 1820, has been reissued in this series. This book, published in 1825, was intended as a companion volume, providing a 'grammar' of chemistry for the medical student. After an imaginary dialogue on the importance of chemistry, between a provincial physician and 'the author', to whom the former is entrusting his son for his medical education, the book moves systematically from the general application of chemistry to medicine, through topics such as gravity, crystallization and electricity, to the detail of the actions of specific elements, and tables of relevant weights and measures, providing fascinating insights into the history of medical education.