RT Journal
T1 FUndamentals of chemistry.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD February 23
VO 92
IS 8
SP 675
OP 675
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700340075040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700340075040
AB The aim of the author, it appears, has been to crowd into a little more than 300 pages that chemical information useful in the study of nursing. The book is divided into two parts: chemical theories and inorganic chemistry, and organic and physiologic theories. The first part is presented in the conventional manner except that the elements of the ever changing electron theory are substituted for the periodic system, the value of which in correlating large amounts of chemical information has been amply illustrated. While the electron theory is of prime importance in correlating chemical properties, the inclusion of this matter in a volume intended as a brief course for a group of specialists is somewhat doubtful. The second half of the book covers enough of the conventional matter of organic chemistry for an understanding of the subsequent general discussion of physiologic chemistry that might prove interesting and useful to