An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène

4 entries
  • 668.2

Recherches chimiques sur plusieurs corps gras, et particulièrement sur leurs combinations avec les calculs. Cinquième mémoire. Des corps qu’on a appelés adipocire, c’est-à-dire, de la substance cristallisée des calculs biliaires humains, du spermacéti et de la substance grasse des cadavres.

Ann. Chim. (Paris), 95, 5-50, 1815.

Chevreul characterized cholesterol.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY
  • 3931

Note sur le sucre de diabètes.

Ann. Chim. (Paris), 95, 319-20, Paris, 1815.

Chevreul proved that the sugar in diabetic urine is glucose.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes
  • 669

Recherches chimiques sur les corps gras d’origine animale.

Paris: F. G. Levrault, 1823.

A classic study of animal fats. Chevreul discovered that fats are composed of fatty acids and glycerol.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY
  • 672

Neues eigenthümliches stickstoffhaltiges Princip, in Muskelfleisch gefunden.

J. Chem. Physik., 65, 455-56, 1832.

Isolation of creatine from muscle.



Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY