Here I present: Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580-1644), Ortus Medicinae (“Origins of Medicine”) 1648. “METABOLISM”.
INTRODUCTION.
Jan Baptist van Helmont was the founder of the science of biochemistry’. Antoine Lavoisier was the founder of the science of chemistry. Equal to the Lavoisier first periodic listing of chemical elements’ is”enzyme classes”.
Seven (7) classes of enzymes constitute periodicity. Organic chemistry’ concerns micromolecules that contain the element (C) carbon. The seven (7) classes of enzymes give a complete framework of metabolism across all species.
ABOVE is the seven (7) enzyme classes mapped to corresponding the seven (7) elementary “catastrophe types” of Rene Thom. This mapping contains reaction formula with corrresponding topology.
