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Lehmann, Karl Gotthelf (1812 - 1863)
HANDBUCH DER PHYSIOLOGISCHEN CHEMIE MIT BESONDERER BRÜCKSICHTIGUNG DER ZOOCHEMISCHEN DOKIMASTIK.
Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1859.
8vo. XVIII, 420 pp. 51 woodcut text illustrations.

Contemporary half calf gilt.

$ 150

Second edition, revised and enlarged. A classical textbook on the subject of physiological chemistry or biochemistry. Includes index. "Lehmann was a discipline builder: he wrote the first recognizably modern textbook, which was far more effective in defining the discipline of physiological chemistry than were Liebig's idiosyncratic works"(Robert E. Kohler, From medical chemistry to biochemistry : the making of a biomedical discipline (Cambridge 1982), p. 19). A reprint edition translated into English appeared in 2009.

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