Author: Abderhalden, Emil [1877-1950]
Title: Synthese der Zellbausteine in Pflanze und Tier : Lösung des Problems der künstlichen Darstellung der Nahrungsstoffe
Description: Berlin, Verlag von Julius Springer, 1912. orig. cloth. 21x13cm, 128 pp. Spine lightly rubbed.. A removed label mark to front flyleaf. Minor wear. VG. ¶ ["Abderhalden was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1920s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigor remains unclear...Abderhalden is known for a blood test for pregnancy, a test for cystine in urine, and for explaining the Abderhalden–Kaufmann–Lignac syndrome, a recessive genetic condition. He did extensive work in the analysis of proteins, polypeptides,and enzymes. His Abwehrfermente ("defensive enzymes") theory stated that immunological challenge will induce production of proteases. This was seemingly 'proven' by many collaborators in Europe, although attempts to verify the theory abroad failed....n late 1912 Abderhalden's "defensive ferments reaction test" was applied to the differential diagnosis of dementia praecox from other mental diseases and from normals by Stuttgart psychiatrist August Fauser (1856–1938), and his miraculous claims of success were soon replicated by researchers in Germany and particularly in the United States....s Abderhalden was seen as the founder of scientific biochemistry in Germany, questioning his work could harm one's career... Otto Westphal later called Abderhalden's Abwehrfermente work 'a fraud from beginning to end'...Abderhalden's work was strongly ideologically slanted: his theory was put to use for human experiments by Otmar von Verschuer and Josef Mengele to develop a blood test for separating 'Aryan' from 'non-Aryan' individuals..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: History of Science, Metabolism, Medicine, Biochemistry, Physiology, Physiological, Chemistry, ,