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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



peared. The other chapters of the volume 

 are contributed by other medical men, who 

 have given special attention to different de- 

 partments of practical physiology ; and the 

 ruling idea of all the articles is to give in the 

 clearest and plainest manner that informa- 

 tion concerning the bodily organs and their 

 management Mhich is most constantly need- 

 ed, and which all common readers can under- 

 stand and apply. The papers of the volume 

 were first contributed to the People's Maga- 

 zine in monthly parts, running through two 

 or three years ; they were then collected and 

 carefully revised by Dr. Hinton, and brought 

 into the unity and completeness which they 

 now present, in the volume form. 



In several respects this book presents 

 universal claims upon the reading public. 

 To begin with, the style in which it is writ- 

 ten is remarkable for its simplicity, its free- 

 dom from technical terms, and its extreme 

 readableness. The writers seem to have 

 constantly kept in mind that they were ad- 

 dressing the non-scientific public, and they 

 have studiously refrained from any pedantic 

 show of physiological language. There is 

 not a chapter in the volume that any ordinary 

 person cannot take up and peruse with fa- 

 cility and pleasure. The importance of this 

 cannot be over-estimated where the object 

 is to produce clear and lasting impressions 

 upon the general mind. 



In the next place, the selection of the 

 subjects treated is as practical as the man- 

 ner of their statement. How completely the 

 whole ground is covered may be shown in 

 no other way so well as by an enumeration 

 of the subjects, which are as follows : 



I. The Brain and its Servants. 

 II. The Faculty of Hearing. 



III. The Eye and Sight. 



IV. The Sense of SmeU. 

 Y. The Sense of Taste. 



YI. Digestion. 



YII. The Skin.— Corpulence. 

 YIII. The Bath.— The Sense of Touch. 

 IX. Notes on Pain. 

 X. Respiration. 

 XI. Taking Cold. 

 XII. Influenza. 

 XIII. Headache. 

 XIY. Sleep. 

 XY. Sleeplessness. 

 XYI. Ventilation. 



XYII. The Liver and its Diseases. 

 X^illl. The Action of Alcohol. 

 XIX. Muscular Motion as exemplified 



in the Human Body. 

 XX. Occupation and Health. 

 XXI. Training and Gymnastics. 



In the third place, on all of these sub- 

 jects it has been the aim of the writers to 

 present that kind of information which can 

 be made practically available for the preser- 

 vation of health. There is only so much sci- 

 entific physiology as is calculated to give 

 point and effect to the useful inculcations of 

 the work. It is the best popular hygienic 

 treatise that we know, and is the kind of 

 book to tell in a salutary way upon the daily 

 conduct. It is here that our physiological 

 text-books generally break down. The in- 

 formation they contain is of the wrong kind 

 — too scientific and too unpractical. There 

 is a good deal of excellent science in this vol- 

 ume, clear and accurate in its presentation ; 

 but it is all subordinated to the useful les- 

 sons and conclusions that are enforced in 

 regard to what may be called physiologi- 

 cal conduct and practice. Such a volume 

 has been long wanted, and we commend 

 it for family reading and for class-exer- 

 cises in schools, as superior to any other we 

 know. 



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