Antedating of "Biochemistry"

[Fred Shapiro]

biochemistry (OED 1881)

1848 _Lancet_ 3 June 609  The subject of the present attack was one of the
multitude who experienced, on their first promulgation, a kind of
fascination from the bio-chemistry of the illustrious Liebig.

Fred Shapiro


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