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THIS little book sets forth, in twenty-two brief chapters, certain practical directions for the study of the elements of anatomy, histology and physiology of the vertebrate body, and the first principles of bacteriology. Many of the instructions given are in interrogatory form, and for simple experiment and observation of the living in action, in which lies the very essence of the science of physiology, the student is commendably referred to his or her own body. Beyond this, however, there is nothing in the book that is new, or which calls for comment in these pages. The mode of treatment is begotten of a conviction on the part of the authoress, that “there is needed a radical change in the teaching of physiology”; and we read with astonishment the statement that while the method of teaching botany, chemistry and other sciences “has long been that of going first to the study of the specimen and then to the text-book,” this has not been the case for “physiology”—that having apparently been taught from the text-book alone. She is writing, however, of State schools of America, and if the accusation be applicable to them generally, we wish her success in her enterprise.
Physiology for the Laboratory.
By Bertha Millard Brown S.B. Pp. viii + 167. (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1900.)
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Physiology for the Laboratory . Nature 62, 365 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062365b0
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