Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory

Abstract

STUDENTS of chemistry have, for a long time, by means of the works of Fresenius and others, had the opportunity, almost unaided, of verifying for themselves most of the experimental results of which they hear in lectures, and read in text-books; and thus many are able, before they have finished their educational course, to obtain a thorough practical knowledge of the science. Such has not been the case with regard to physiology; the subject is less advanced, and has progressed more slowly; perhaps this is because the descriptions of the methods by which the ends have been arrived at, as given by lecturers and writers, are incomplete and insufficient. The work before us is the first important attempt that has been made to put the commencing physiologist in a fair position to begin original work on the subject, by giving him the necessary directions for himself performing many of the fundamental to experiments on which the science is based. Whether physiology in its most comprehensive sense, as understood by the authors of this work in their title, is a single branch of science which can be thus treated in its unity, or whether it ought to be divided up and incorporated with others already established, is a point which has not yet been satisfactorily settled, and which the perusal of this book may assist in proving.

Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory.

By E. Klein J. B. Sanderson M. Foster T. L. Brunton (Churchill.)