PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



IT is now seven years since the first edition of this " Text- 

 book on Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses" was issued, and 

 in order to bring the book up to date it has become necessary 

 to revise it. 



That this revision has been accomplished with, I trust, success, 

 is almost entirely owing to the kind assistance given me by 

 Mr. T. Pickering Pick, and by Percy M. Dawson, M.D., 

 Assistant Professor of Physiology in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore. To the latter I am indebted for the whole 

 recasting, and in large measure rewriting, of the chapter on the 

 Nervous System, and also, to a slighter extent, of Chapters I. 

 and XIX. Indeed, so greatly is this revision the work of 

 Dr. Dawson that I should have been glad, had I been allowed, 

 to place his name with mine on the title-page. 



The chapter on the Nervous System has been transferred 

 to its usual position in such text-books, namely, following the 

 chapter on Muscles, but it is, of course, possible for those who 

 prefer the old arrangement to take this chapter later in the 

 course of study. 



A number of new drawings have been made specially for 

 this edition, including ten original ones by Dr. Dawson; also, 

 to all the weights and measures, according to the English 

 System, have been added their equivalents in the Metric 

 System. It should be noted that the calculations are based 

 upon the standard of weights and measures adopted by the 

 United States, and not upon those of the British Pharmacopeia. 



November 12, 1901. 



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