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THE appearance of a third edition of one of the major American text-books of physiology will be welcomed by teachers of physiology. Extensive revision includes the addition of 1,400 new references, and it is as a guide to the recent literature that the book is likely to make its strongest appeal. In sections in which the emphasis on recent developments is most marked, the impression of a collection of stop-press news sometimes disturbs that of a well-digested presentation. In the course of the transfer from the summaries of original papers to the text, condensation has in some instances played havoc with the sense of the matter described, and a rather high measure of verbal carelessness enhances the feeling that the book does not represent quite the unhurried and matured conception of physiology for which we would have hoped from so distinguished an authority.
Physiology in Health and Disease
By Prof. Carl J. Wiggers. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. 1144. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1939.) 42s. net.
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Physiology in Health and Disease. Nature 146, 80 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146080b0
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