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Hammarsten, Olof (1841 - 1932)
LÄROBOK I FYSIOLOGISK KEMI OCH FYSIOLOGISK-KEMISK ANALYS. 1-2 in one.
Upsala, W. Schultz, 1883.
8vo. VIII, 336; [2] pp., pp. 337-612 + 2 explanatory text leaves + 8 plates (7 in colour).

Contemporary gilt-lettered half calf.

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First edition. Includes index. "Prof. Olof Hammarsten, the celebrated Swedish biochemist, was born atNorrkoping in Sweden on August 21, 1841. He received his medical education at Uppsala, where he qualified in 1869, and was assistant at the laboratory for clinical chemistry and the physiological institute. In 1877 he was appointed extraordinary professor of physiology at Uppsala, where he became professor of medical and physiological chemistry in 1883; he held this post until his retirement in 1906. His chief work was his textbook on physiological chemistry, which for many years stood almost alone as a work of reference and was translated into several foreign languages"Nature, 148 (1941), p. 195).

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