Clinical Chemistry, May 1st, 2004
Chemistry in the service of medical practice was relegated to the periphery of medical science until well into the nineteenth century. Biochemistry took shape near the close of the nineteenth century, when emphasis on living systems shifted from physiology to chemistry. The subsequent emergence of clinical chemistry in the opening years of the twentieth century, as the medical application of analytical biochemistry, was inevitable. During the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century, the study of chemistry in Great Britain at the university or hospital medical...
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