Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie in 75 Vorlesungen für Studierende, Ärzte, Biologen und Chemiker.

This volume consists of twelve lectures on fat and general metabolism. The first three lectures provide a good discussion of fat digestion, absorption and body fat formation. Then follow two lectures on the biologic oxidation of fats together with various pathologic aspects. The sixth lecture is devoted to a clear and yet not too elementary discussion of body needs from the point of view of energy, nitrogen equilibrium and digestibility. Following these chapters the author gives a more detailed treatment of metabolism in starvation and in the experimental parenteral introduction of the various types of foodstuffs. Attention is called to the extremely complex factors involved in a truly balanced dietary. The lecture of vitamins and avitaminosis presents the modern point of view with due emphasis on the need of much additional and most painstaking research. The respiration calorimeter methods and results are given with brief but good discussion on the