An introduction to Physiology

Abstract

THIS new text-book of practical physiology is interesting from two distinct points of view. It is the first important work on the subject which has appeared by an American author, and the faculty for the invention of simple yet efficient mechanical devices which is characteristic of Americans is here reflected in clearly written descriptions of inexpensive apparatus which will, in large part, be novel to the British physiologist, who has, unfortunately, grown up to believe that adequate instruction cannot be given in physiology without expensive and elaborate apparatus and laboratory fittings. But the book has other importance, in that it is an indication of the extent and nature of the teaching that can be given to the medical student under the new system of dealing with the purely scientific subjects of the medical curriculum which has recently been inaugurated at the Harvard Medical School.

An introduction to Physiology.

By William Townsend Porter, Associate Professor of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School. Pp. xvi + 314. (Cambridge, Mass.: The University Press, 1901.)