Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids / By Victor C. Vaughan and Frederick G. Novy.

  • Vaughan, Victor C. (Victor Clarence), 1851-1929.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids / By Victor C. Vaughan and Frederick G. Novy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, WiTHix the past ten years much has been said and written concerning the basic substances formed during the putrefaction of organic matter, and those which are pro- duced by the normal tissue changes in the living organism. Many investigators have given their whole time and atten- tion to the study of these substances and important discov- eries have been made and much light has been thrown upon what have heretofore been considered problems in medical science. To collect, arrange, and systematize the facts concerning ptomaines and leucomaines has been our first object. Although many short essays, some of them of great value, have been written with the above-mentioned object in view, the present work may be regarded as the first attempt to make this collation embrace everything of importance on this subject. In endeavoring to accomplish this object we have met with many difficulties. The original reports of the various investigators are scattered through the pages of medical and scientific journals, transactions of societies, monographs, government reports, etc. However, with few exceptions we have been able to obtain the original reports, and Ave think that we have included everything of importance published up to the present year (1888).