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Memoires Presentes Par Divers Savants a L'Academie Des Sciences De L'Institut National De France. Tome XXVIII No. 3: Memoire Sur Les Matieres Albuminoides
1884ref. 1405300113Paris Imprimerie royale 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 516p. French. Bound in modern brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Soiling to first page and last page. Lacking title page. The albumins are a family of globular proteins the most common of which is serum albumin. The albumin family consists of all proteins that are water-soluble are moderately soluble in concentrated salt solutions and experience heat denaturation. Albumins are commonly found in blood plasma and are unique from other blood proteins in that they are not glycosylated. Substances containing albumins such as egg white are called albuminoids. A number of blood transport proteins are evolutionarily related including serum albumin alpha-fetoprotein vitamin D-binding protein and afamin. Pierre Jacques Antoine Bechamp was a French chemist and biologist now best known as a rival of Louis Pasteur. Bchamp did pioneering work in industrial chemistry developing an efficient process to produce aniline dye which was central to the development of the synthetic dye industry. He also developed p-aminophenylarsonate an organic arsenic compound used to treat parasitic diseases. Bechamp's later life was consumed by a bitter and protracted dispute with Louis Pasteur. Initially their rivalry centered on credit for discovery of fermentation and later grew to encompass competing ideas on microbiology pathogenesis and germ theor Paris, Imprimerie royale hardcover
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