Abstract
IT is apparently the notion in certain educational circles that hygiene can be taught without a preliminary knowledge of the science physiology on which it is founded. If such an idea still lingers anywhere it will be immediately dispelled by a perusal of this attractive little book. The author shows quite clearly that the laws of health are direct deductions from physiological principles. These are explained in clear, simple language, so free as possible from technical terms, and we can highly recommend the book as suitable for readers commencing the study of the subject, or for those who do not wish to take it up from the professional and medical point of view. Where so much is excellent, it seems ungracious to point out a serious mistake, the only one so far as can be ascertained; this is the erroneous statement that the red blood corpuscles are the carriers of carbon dioxide.
First Book of Physiology and Hygiene.
By Prof. Gertrude D. Cathcart. Pp. vi + 158. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 1s. 6d.
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H., W. First Book of Physiology and Hygiene . Nature 94, 615 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/094615a0
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