TY  - JOUR
T1  - INtroduction to chemistry
Y1  - 1949/04/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071030
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 967
EP  - 967
VL  - 139
IS  - 14
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071030
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900310071030
ER  -