“If a Student could rely on remembering every word which he had ever heard or read, such a book as this would be unnecessary; but experience teaches that he constantly needs to recall the form of an argument and to make sure of the proper classification of his facts, although he does not need a second time to follow the author up all the short steps by which the ascent was first made. With a view to rendering the book useful for rapid recapitulation, I have endeavoured to strike out every word which was not essential to clearness, and thus, without I hope falling into ‘telegram’ English, to give the text the form which it may be supposed to take in a well-kept Note-book; at the same time, space has been left for the introduction in MS. of such additional facts and arguments as seem to the reader to bear upon the subject-matter. For the same reason the drawings are reduced to diagrams. All details which are not necessary to the comprehension of the principles of construction of the apparatus or organ, as the case may be, are omitted, and it is hoped that the drawings will, therefore, be easy to grasp, remember, and reproduce.
“As it is intended that the ‘Note-book’ should be essentially a Student’s book, no references are given to foreign literature or to recondite papers in English; but, on the other hand, references are given to a number of classical English memoirs, as well as to descriptions in text-books which appear to me to be particularly lucid, and the Student is strongly recommended to study the passages and Papers referred to.”—Extract from Author’s Preface.
By WILLIAM STIRLING, M.D., Sc.D.,
Professor in the Victoria University, Brackenbury Professor of Physiology and Histology in the Owens
College, Manchester; and Examiner in the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and London;
and for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.
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PRACTICAL PHYSIOLOGY (Outlines of):
A Manual for the Physiological Laboratory,
INCLUDING
CHEMICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY, WITH REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL MEDICINE.
Part I.—Chemical Physiology.
Part II.—Experimental Physiology.