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As a contribution to scientific literature this book is negligible; as a popular exposition of the elementary principles of physiology it is untrustworthy. It is no part of a reviewer's duty to enumerate the errors scat tered through it; it will be sufficient to take one as a sample. “The red blood corpuscles are also car riers of carbonic acid gas to the lungs … and the darker colour of impure or venous blood is explained by the fact that when carbonic acid gas unites with the hæmoglobin a darker hue is produced” (p. 64). A first year's student knows better than this. It would be better to leave the writing of physiolpgical text-books to those who know something of physiology.
Physiology: a Popular Account of the Functions of the Human Body.
By Dr. Andrew Wilson. Pp. vii + 128. (London: Milner and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. net.
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H., W. Physiology: a Popular Account of the Functions of the Human Body . Nature 81, 455 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081455d0
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