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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Paris Academie des Sciences 1845 Offered is a Very Good+ entire issue of Comptes Rendus in modern green wrappers with white title label front cover, foxing pages. Sm. 4to. Very Good+ Gobley's most significant work concerned the chemistry of phosphatides. He investigated the fatty matter in egg yolk, milk and fish eggs, venous blood, bile and brain tissue: and in 1845 he discovered a fatty substance containing phosphorus which in 1850 he named lecithin (from the Greek lekithos, egg yolk). Gobley was unable to elucidate the exact chemical composition of lecithin, which he obtained in impure form, but he noted that its hydrolysis yielded fatty acids as well as glycerophosphoric acid. (DSB Vol. 5 p. 432).…