Abstract
THE present volume deals with the general principles of biology, the chemistry of the body, the early stages of development, the microscope, and the methods of microscopical research, the histology of the tissues and the physiology of muscle. It is no doubt very difficult to say what should and what should not be included in a text-book of physiology. The primary object is to explain as much as we can of the phenomena of the animal organism by physical and chemical laws. To understand such an explanation, a knowledge of chemistry, physics, and of the structure of the organism is essential. These subjects are treated of in special text-books which do not contain any physiology, and their introduction into a work devoted to this subject cannot fail to exert an injurious influence on the full exposition of the actual state of the science.
A Text-book of Physiology.
By J. G. McKendrick Including "Histology," by Philipp Stöhr, M.D. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. General Physiology. (Glasgow: MacLehose and Sons. London: Macmillan and Co. 1888.)
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WOOLDRIDGE, L. A Text-Book of Physiology . Nature 38, 489–490 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038489a0
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