From Physiological Chemistry to Biochemistry

The work of Pasteur enforced the view that living cells could perform identifiable, complex organic reactions. At the same time physiologists such as Heidenhain and Bernard showed that metabolic changes associated with different organs could be performed in vitro, e.g., by gastric or pancreatic secretions. It became feasible for physiologists to interpret their observations in chemical terms. 

In the U.S. the Journal of Biological Chemistry was founded in 1905. The Biochemical Journal (U.K.) was begun by Benjamin Moore, then 

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Leicester, H.M. (1974). The Development of Biochemical Concepts from Ancient to Modem Times. Harvard UP. 

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