Fundamentals of Biochemistry:

MR. PARSONS' original aim was to produce a theoretical treatise on biochemistry containing much less information than is given in the larger treatises but enough to describe in a continuous story the principles of an involved and growing subject. The book is now in its fifth edition, showing that it has met a demand, and it remains chiefly to note that the fruitful progress which is being made has enabled new sections to be recorded dealing with subjects which had long been thought to be of the greatest complexity. These relate to the chemistry of muscle metabolism, of the sex hormones and of the flavines. The speed at which new discoveries are being made in these and other fields of inquiry which are fashionable for the moment is quite remarkable; it contrasts with the lack of progress in certain other sections at least this is the impression which the reviewer has gained from his perusal of the book.Fundamentals of Biochemistry: in relation to Human Physiology. By T. R. Parsons. Fifth edition. Pp. xii + 453. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.