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Synopsis
Excerpt from Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1923, Vol. 13
The l7oth meeting of the academy was held jointly with the Biological Society of Washington and the Chemical Society of Washington in the Assembly Hall of the Cosmos Club, the evening of Thursday, October 19, 1922. Dr. H. J. Hamburger, Professor of Physiology, University of Gron ingen, Holland, delivered an address, entitled, The increasing significance of chemistry in medical thought and practice.
Doctor hamburger reviewed briefly the contributions of the older schools of thought to the chemical aspects of medicine, dwelling particularly upon the experiments Of Paracelsus. In these early contributions there can be seen the first faltering steps in the construction of a mechanistic physiology. With the advent of modern chemical experimentation many of the bodily processes which had been regarded as under' 'vitalistic control were shown to be under the control of such clearly defined forces as those of osmosis. Electrolytic dissociation, and Specific chemical reactions.
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