Meet the flow chemist

St. Patrick, the organic chemist and Sherlock Holmes meet in the emergency department: a case report.

A 29-year-old male presented to the Royal Alexandra Hospital ED on the evening of St. Patrick’s day in 2001. His presenting complaint was general malaise, and he was well known to the department for a variety of previous mixed ingestions and minor injuries. His history was significant for alcohol abuse, with the last ethanol ingestion approximately 18 hours earlier. He was a disheveled man who ...

The clinical chemist.

The National Executive Committee of the American Association of Clinical Chemists met in Miimeapolis, Mum., on September 14, 1955. Those present were: Otto Schales (President), Max M. Friedman (National Secretary), Louis B. Dotti (National Treasurer), Monroe E. Freeman, Joseph H. Gast, Samuel Natelson, Margaret M. Kaser (Alternate for Icie M. Hoobler), Joseph I. Routh (Alternate for William G. ...

The skeptical chemist.

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, the science in whieh chemical and biologic analysis of body fluids and tissues is used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, is undergoing rapid change. Engineers and physicists have entered the field and have designed automated and mechanized equipment which, some people postulate, eventually may replace not only the technician, but also the clinical chemist. I feel, h...

The American Chemist and the War's Problems.

Boussingault. Chemist and agriculturist

each problem developed, for, as Keele says, "the movement of Leonardo's mind through his life constituted a continuum". Before embarking on his analysis of Leonardo's perception and understanding of the anatomy and physiology of these aspects of Man and Machine, however, Keele considers the general principles of Leonardo's physics in a succinct discussion of his theories of the four elements an...