RT Journal
T1 INtroduction to chemistry
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD April 2
VO 139
IS 14
SP 967
OP 967
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071030
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071030
AB A textbook for student nurses, this highly compressed introduction to inorganic, physical, organic, biologic and pharmaceutical chemistry severely limits itself to topics of most immediate interest to its users: units of measurement; nature of matter and fundamental chemical theory; air, its composition and behavior in the atmosphere and in the body; water, its conversion to a potable liquid and uses as a solvent and chemical properties, including its action as a hydrating and ionizing agent; simple organic compounds; foods, their composition and fate in the body, and vitamins, sulfonamide compounds and antibiotics. The author is to be commended for her careful definitions, which are both scattered through the text and collected, for reference, at the ends of chapters; liberal use of examples and illustrations; clear and thought-provoking questions, and the employment of as simple a vocabulary as is compatible with the subject. However, it seems to the reviewer that the