Albumin early concepts

At first heat-coagulable substances were called albumin or albuminoid after egg white, and Germans used the more specific word Eiweisskorper. In the early 1830s, the Dutch chemist Gerrit Jan Mulder convinced himself that the differences among albuminoids is the result of the combination of an organic oxide, a primary unit common to all of them, with either sulfur or phosphorus. For a while, Jons Jacob Berzelius accepted Mulder s concept, and on 10 July 1838 Berzelius wrote to Mulder ... 

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