Excerpt from Biochemistry: A Study of the Origin, Reactions, and Equilibria of Living Matter
This book deals intensively with certain of the properties of living matter.
It is not meant to be a general textbook on the subject, but to give some prospect of the origin and reactions and balances of living matter.
Textbooks by the score already exist describing the details of the anatomy, so to speak, of living matter, but few treatises deal in a fundamental manner with the physiology, or work, of live things.
In all chemistry, and, indeed, in all biology, there exist these two sides, the structural and the functional, the anatomical and the physiological.
The two aspects cannot by any means be divorced, for structure and function go hand in hand, and variations in structure precede and are impelled by variations in function. So evolution of the more complex from the more simple proceeded since first life appeared in the world.
It is, however, possible to decide for a school which branch it intends to study; and since the majority of schools in this country have chosen the anatomical side, to restore somewhat the balance, the school of Biochemistry at Oxford will choose the functional side.
The book is somewhat composite in character, but it is hoped that it will gain rather than lose interest on that account.
The two opening chapters were written before the experiments detailed in the six following chapters were carried out.
They have here been recorded as originally written, and the thoughts expressed in them led to the succeeding experiments; thus there are placed on record the evolution and progress of a research.
The experiments are described almost verbatim from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, and my thanks are due to the Royal Society for permission to reprint.
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