Animal chemistry, or, Organic chemistry in its applications to physiology and pathology / by Justus Liebig ; edited from the author's manuscript by William Gregory ; with additions, notes, and corrections by Dr. Gregory, and others by John W. Webster.

  • Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von, 1803-1873.
Date:
1842
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    cisms, especially of his later ones, has been thought by some to be occasionally tinged by personal and even ambitious motives. The beneficial effects of the labors of Liebig were soon visible in Germany and in the neighboring countries. The French chem- ists were led to show more respect to Ger- man Chemistry than ever before, and this re- spect is now established in the place of for- mer disregard, for the French now acknowl- edge, as Liebig himself once remarked, that Germany is the real seat of public opinion in chemical affairs. — In Germany his criticism was efficacious, because it attacked with merci- less severity all that was false, and showed at the same time the right method of coming at correct results, and which not only commanded the attention of neighboring countries, but in- creased and secured it. This may be said, however, only in respect to the department of Organic Chemistry ; for, when Liebig commenced his researches, Inor- ganic Chemistry had reached such a degree of perfection, that it was partly through contrast with it, that the imperfections of the former