Provides information required by students and junior medical staff so as to understand the place of chemical tests in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Examines clinical chemistry, which brings together knowledge and skills acquired from the scientific disciplines of biochemistry, chemistry, physiology and related subjects, and applies them to problems of detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in man. Focuses on providing general information about the biochemical basis of disease and the principles of laboratory diagnosis for conditions with a biochemical pathogenesis and also disease states whereby biochemical derangements take place as secondary manifestations.