Excerpt from Hand-Book of Physiology I save once more subjected this book to a thorough revision, and endeavoured to incorporate in it the results of all important recent work in the widening physiological field. In so doing, I have tried to keep in mind that the book is a student's text-book, and that it is therefore neces sary not to overwhelm its readers with a mass of unnecessary detail. The introduction of new matter entails the excision of what is antiquated or unnecessary, and so I have been able to keep the size of ...
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Excerpt from Hand-Book of Physiology I save once more subjected this book to a thorough revision, and endeavoured to incorporate in it the results of all important recent work in the widening physiological field. In so doing, I have tried to keep in mind that the book is a student's text-book, and that it is therefore neces sary not to overwhelm its readers with a mass of unnecessary detail. The introduction of new matter entails the excision of what is antiquated or unnecessary, and so I have been able to keep the size of the work pretty much as it was. The present edition exceeds its predecessor by only fiiwen pages, and this increase is largely due to the fact that about twenty new illustrations have been added. It is immssible to enumerate all the changes now introduced, for hardly a page has escaped some alteration. The principal additions are, however, as follows: New sections have been intro duced on the significance of Nissl's granules, on Waller's work on the electrical currents of the eyeball, on Cannon's researches in connection with stomach movements, and on Waymouth Reid's investigation of the processes of absorp tion. The sections relating to the electrical phenomena of muscle, to the proteids, to the ductless glands, to the muscles of the larynx, to the cranial nerves, and to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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