Biochemical Bulletin, Band 3

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Columbia University Biochemical Association., 1914
 

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Seite 115 - July 14, 1912, provided that an essay deemed by the Committee of Award to be worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays intended for competition may be upon any subject in medicine, but cannot have been published.
Seite 534 - In our century, science is the soul of the prosperity of nations and the living source of all progress. Undoubtedly, the tiring daily discussions of politics seem to be our guide. Empty appearances! What really leads us forward are a few scientific discoveries and their application.
Seite 116 - ... the name and address of the author. It is a condition of competition that the successful essay or a copy of it shall remain in possession of the college ; other essays will be returned upon application within three months after the award.
Seite 344 - Harvard College pays me for doing what I would gladly pay it for allowing me to do. No professional man, then, thinks of giving according to measure. Once engaged, he gives his best, gives his personal interest, himself. His heart is in his work, and for this no equivalent is possible; what is accepted is in the nature of a fee, gratuity, or consideration, which enables him who receives it to maintain a certain expected mode of life. The real payment is the work itself, this and the chance to join...
Seite 169 - The word Regeneration has come to mean in general usage not only the replacement of a lost part but also the development of a new, whole organism, or even a part of an organisn, from a piece of an adult, or of an embryo, or an egg.
Seite 176 - The goal of science is clear — it is nothing short of the complete interpretation of the universe.
Seite 395 - In studying the effect of these nitrogenous soil constituents on growth, wheat seedlings were grown in aqueous culture solutions containing the ordinary fertilizer salts, calcium acid phosphate, sodium nitrate, and potassium sulphate. Some of the cultures contained calcium acid phosphate only, some sodium nitrate only, and some potassium sulphate only. Other solutions were composed of mixtures of two salts, sodium nitrate and calcium acid phosphate, sodium nitrate and potassium sulphate, and calcium...
Seite 278 - ... director, the performance of those rare experiments which involve pain is, we believe, justifiable. 4. We regret the widespread lack of information regarding the aims, the achievements, and procedures of animal experimentation. We deplore the persistent misrepresentation of these aims, achievements, and procedures by those who are opposed to this scientific method. We protest against the frequent denunciations of self-sacrificing, high-minded men of science who are devoting their lives to the...
Seite 159 - Perfect growth and development implies a far-reaching correlation of the various parts of the body. An upset in this nicely balanced relationship is speedily recognized as an anomaly. Energy and matter are insufficient to explain the consummation and maintenance of a normal as contrasted with an abnormal composition of the cells. The specificity of growth is something marked, particularly when normal is contrasted with perverted growth. The definition referred to above has a particular value in the...
Seite 172 - during the normal development of the young of the same age and species, a definite percentage of the food is retained for growth irrespective of the size of the individual.

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