Physical chemistry in the service of medicine : seven addresses / by Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, authorized translation by Dr. Martin H. Fischer.

  • Pauli, Wolfgang, 1869-1955.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Physical chemistry in the service of medicine : seven addresses / by Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, authorized translation by Dr. Martin H. Fischer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFATORY NOTE TO AMERICAN EDITION. The advance of medicine is so dependent upon progress in the fundamental sciences of physics, chem- istry, and biology that he who will keep abreast of modern conceptions in physiology and pathology is compelled to be more or less conversant with theory and practice in the basal subjects. When one con- siders the phenomenal development in recent years, through the work especially of Willard Gibbs, van't Hoff, and Arrhenius, in the domain of what is designated physical chemistry, it is not surprising that attempts should have been made to apply the new knowledge gained to the clearing up of some of the problems which confront the physician. While the application of stoichiometrical methods in medicine and biology has led and is leading to fruitful results, it is from the utilization of the principles of the other great branch of physical chemistry, that which deals with energy- relations in chemical processes, that most is to be hoped; that many of the medical conceptions of the future are to be colored by the ideas of thermochem- istry, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and chemical dynamics even those of us who are entirely untrained in these sciences are compelled to admit. The work already done on reaction-velocity, catalysis, equilibrium, viscosity, osmotic pressure, and electrolytic dissocia-