Excerpt from Quantitative Laws in Biological ChemistryIn the same manner Biochemistry up to a quite recent time consisted of a great number of descrip tions of different products accompanying living organisms, their properties, use, and their composi tion, zie. Their content of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus or perhaps other elementary substances. If possible this composition was ex pressed by means of a chemical formula.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.