Phosphates : their chemical composition and uses in the different tissues of the body / by M.F. Anderson.

  • Anderson, M. F. (Mark French)
Date:
1877
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Credit: Phosphates : their chemical composition and uses in the different tissues of the body / by M.F. Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    preface:. In this pamphlet I have tried to show the importance or certain inorganic materials in the food, and the part they play in the tissues. If my views are as correct as I beHevO' them to be, a new field is opened up to the profession for the- investigation of the cause of organic diseases, hitherto but little understood, and possibly also for the successful-; treatment of many of these diseases. The conclusions arrived at as to the dual composition of the capillaries, and the important part tribasic phosphate plays in their nutrition, are the result of experiments under- taken to ascertain the use of phosphoric acid in food. I had no theory on the subject, so that the conclusions have arisen £i-om, and grown with, my investigations. I have not worked to try and prove a case, but have simply kept a record of a series of experiments, which I subseqently tried to interpret. As I wished to curtail the present pamphlet as far as practicable, I have omitted an account of the methods of analysis employed, but I have not adopted any plan until I had satisfied myself by standard experiments of “ its accm’acy. I have avoided, as much as possible, technicalities; but- in order to make myself intelligible have been obliged to> resort occasionally to them use. My object is to bring my views, not only before the profession, but before the public- also, so that the truth, or error, of my ideas may be fairly tested. In matters of chemistry I have used the old notation in preference to the new, because the majority of workerss in the present generation understand the old better.' than the new.. 15, Priory Eow, Coventry; July, 1877.