[Ads-l] Antedating of "Protein"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Sep 8 19:37:49 UTC 2020


protein (OED 1844)

"Protein" occurs in _Provincial Medical Journal and Retrospect of the Medical Sciences_, 3 Sept. 1842, page 450 (JSTOR).  That article cites _Medical Gazette_, 29 July 1842, so "protein" may occur in the latter journal.

Fred Shapiro

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