Author: Austin Flint

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-26

Total Pages: 1018

ISBN-13: 9781334411533

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Human Physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine IN preparing this text-book for the use of students and practitioners of medicine, I have endeavored to adapt it to the wants of the profession, as they have appeared to me after a considerable experience as a public teacher of hu man physiology. My large treatise in five volumes is here condensed, and I have omitted bibliographical citations and matters of purely historical interest. Many subjects, which were considered rather elaborately in my larger work, are here presented in a much more concise form. I have added, also, numer ous illustrations, which I hope may lighten the labors of the student. A few of these are original, but by far the greater part has been selected from relia ble authorities. I have thought it not without historical interest to reproduce exactly some of the classical engravings from the works of great discoverers, such as illustrations contained in the original editions of Fabricius, Harvey, and Asellius. In addition, I have Copied a few of the beautiful microscopi cal photographs taken at the United States Army Medical Museum by Dr. J. J. Woodward, who kindly furnished them to me and to whom I here express my grateful acknowledgments. I have also to thank M. Sappey for his kind ness in furnishing electrotypes of many of the superb engravings with which his great work upon anatomy is illustrated. My work in five volumes was intended as a book of reference, which I hope will continue to be useful to those who desire an account of the literature of physiology as well as a statement of the facts of the science. I have always endeavored, in public teaching, to avoid giving undue prominence to points in which I might myself be particularly interested from having made them sub jects of special study or of original research. In my text-book, I have carried out the same idea, striving to teach, systematically and with uniform emphasis, what students of medicine are expected to learn in physiology, and avoiding elaborate discussions of subjects not directly connected with practical medi cine, surgery, and obstetrics. While I have referred to my original observa tions upon the location of the sense of want of air in the general system, the new excretory function of the liver, the function of glycogenesis, the in u ence of muscular exercise upon the elimination of urea, etc., I have not con sidered these subjects with great minuteness and have generally referred the reader to monographs for the details of my experiments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."