PRE VI USL Y P UB LI SHED 



HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY 



BY 



PROFESSOR LUIGI LUCIANI 



VOLUME I 

 CIRCULATION AND RESPIRATION 



&vo. 1 8s. net. 



NATURE. "The arduous labour of translation has been carried out very 

 efficiently, the English version being clear, accurate, and eminently readable. . . . 

 The references to the literature of the subject appended to the various sections of 

 the work form a very useful feature. The editor, Dr. M. Camis, has rendered 

 these more complete by the addition of the chief recent English and American 

 physiological papers. These references will undoubtedly offer valuable guidance to 

 senior students of physiology desirous of extending their knowledge of physiology 

 beyond the limits of their text-books. . . . The book is a remarkable achievement, 

 especially in view of the fact that it is the work of a single author, and appears to 

 the reviewer to possess special qualities and merits, which entitle it to a high place 

 amongst the existing English text-books of physiology." 



BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. "The text-book is one which should be 

 read by those studying for higher examinations, and all who wish for a literary and 

 philosophic treatment of the subject. Luciani has the same lucidity and charm of 

 style which Sir Michael Foster possessed, and his text-book fills almost exactly the 

 place which Foster's text-book held in English literature. Very good are the admir- 

 able historical summaries by which each subject is introduced. ... An excellent 

 feature is the way he sets forth classical experiments which prove the points he is 

 discussing. He writes knowing that he has breadth and room enough in his four 

 volumes, and owing to this his work gains enormously over the dull, unembroidered 

 one-volumed text-book. The student could not have a better introduction to 

 physiology than Luciani's chapter on living matter. Miss Welby has done her 

 work very well." 



LANCET. "We offer a hearty welcome to the work of the veteran professor 

 of physiology in Rome, one of the early Italian pupils of Ludwig and the successor 

 of Moleschott. Few men have such an all-round knowledge of physiology as Luigi 

 Luciani, or so wide an outlook on physiological problems, both in their modern and 

 in their historical aspects. Moreover, this treatise will introduce to English readers 

 much of the work done by his compatriots, which is none too well known in either 

 England or America. It is rather remarkable that the translation into English of 

 such an all-round comprehensive work should have been so long delayed. All the 

 more, therefore, do we congratulate Miss Welby on the successful manner in which 

 she has performed her work. We wish this and the succeeding volumes every 

 success in their English garb, and we hope that the other three volumes will soon 

 make their appearance." 



VOLUMES III and IV. (Completing the Work.) In preparation. 

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