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Chemistry and Health

Chemistry and Health In short, every breath we take, every movement we make, is the result of chemical changes within the wonderfully organized communities of cells which constitute our bodies. These chemical reactions are so complicated that we understand them but hazily. They, in turn, induce further chemical reactions which we also do not understand. But this much we do know. It is only when. these multitudinous chemical changes, which are going on all the time, some with inconceivable rapidity, some more slowly, are proceeding in an orderly fashion that we are in a state of health. When they are abnormal in character or not properly coordinated, they are a direct cause of disease, as in gout, diabetes, goiter, and autointoxication. When abnormal, they may also be the indirect cause of disease through lowering the natural resistance of the body to invading disease germs, which in turn do their damage through the chemical substances which they produce-the toxins. How much has chemistry done to determine exactly what are the normal constitutions and reactions of the organs, tissues, cells and fluids *Address of the Chairman, delivered before the Food and Drugs Section of the American Public Health Association at the Fifty-sixth Annual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Chemistry and Health

Harry W. Redfield
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 18 (2) – Feb 1, 1928
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In short, every breath we take, every movement we make, is the result of chemical changes within the wonderfully organized communities of cells which constitute our bodies. These chemical reactions are so complicated that we understand them but hazily. They, in turn, induce further chemical reactions which we also do not understand. But this much we do know. It is only when. these multitudinous chemical changes, which are going on all the time, some with inconceivable rapidity, some more slowly, are proceeding in an orderly fashion that we are in a state of health. When they are abnormal in character or not properly coordinated, they are a direct cause of disease, as in gout, diabetes, goiter, and autointoxication. When abnormal, they may also be the indirect cause of disease through lowering the natural resistance of the body to invading disease germs, which in turn do their damage through the chemical substances which they produce-the toxins. How much has chemistry done to determine exactly what are the normal constitutions and reactions of the organs, tissues, cells and fluids *Address of the Chairman, delivered before the Food and Drugs Section of the American Public Health Association at the Fifty-sixth Annual

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Published: Feb 1, 1928

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