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On the Connection between Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action

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IN his letter to NATURE last week (p. 594), Dr. Blake considers that I have not only misunderstood the scope of his experiments, but have been led into error on account of my having no definite idea of the meaning of the term chemical constitution, which he thinks I have evidently confounded with that of chemical composition.

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BRUNTON, T. On the Connection between Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action. Nature 34, 617 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034617a0

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