2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



opportunity to enforce the practical applications of their subject. 

 According to the division of labor existing in medicine to-day it is 

 the main duty of the physiologist to till his own field, and to the 

 clinician and practising physician belong the responsibility and 

 the opportunity of utilizing the results thus obtained by giving 

 them their practical application to diagnosis and treatment. It 

 is gratifying to find that tlje attention of the clinicians is being 

 directed more to this side of the subject. Without doubt this 

 tendency will serve to emphasize to the student the importance 

 of a sound training in the physiological sciences. 



