[1] Textbook of Biochemistry consists entirely of lecture manuscripts given by the author, Alexander Thomas Cameron, over several years.
[1] The textbook's first edition was published with a preface by Swale Vincent, Professor of Physiology at the University of London.
Treat B. Johnson, writing for the Journal of Chemical Education, acknowledged the difficulty of concisely covering the rapidly growing field of biochemistry, but concluded that Cameron has "done quite well.
"[2] He described Textbook of Biochemistry as "not a book that follows the ordinary logical procedure usually associated with such texts,"[2] and complements Cameron on a "dogmatic treatment which is really stimulating.
"[3] The reviewer contradicts, for example, the book's assertions that urinal ammonia is formed in the kidneys from urea, and that pepsin does not attack the CO-NH links in proteins.