Excerpt from A Laboratory Manual of Physiological and Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology TO offer to the medical profession in general and to the medical student in particular a new work embodying laboratory methods of clinical chemistry and toxicology, where so many admirable treatises are in existence, may appear at first sight an unprofitable and useless labor. But all such previous works have either been too voluminous for general use, or too complicated to serve as an ordinary working manual. What the student needs is a work brief enough to give him a clear understanding of the methods of chemical diagnosis, and broad enough so that its pages may comprise all that he will need in the intelligent practice of his profession. While this little work does not pretend to be a com plete working manual of medical chemistry and toxicology, if it accomplishes the purpose for which it was written, that of leading the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.