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PHYSIOLOGIST'S NOTE-BOOK: 



A Summary of the Present State of Physiological Science, 

 for the use of Students. 



BY 



ALEX HILL, M.A., M.D, 



Master of Downing College, Cambridge. 



numerous Illustrations an& ffilaitfc 

 tor /K>S. motes. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



The Blood The Vascular System The Nerves Muscle Digestion 

 The Skin The Kidney Respiration The Senses Voice and Speech 

 Central Nervous System -Reproduction Chemistry of the Body. 



%* The object of this work is not to supersede the larger Text-Books, 

 still less to take the place of Lectures and Laboratory work, but to 

 assist the Student in CODIFYING HIS KNOWLEDGE. 



"The 'Note-book' deals with the ARGUMENTS OF PHYSIOLOGY, and it is as well that the 

 Student should from the outset recognise that the subject, although it has made rapid strides 

 during the last twenty years, is still in a transitional state, and that many of its most important 

 issues can only be summed up as leaving a balance of evidence on the one side or the other a 

 balance which subsequent investigation may possibly disturb. I have made an attempt, which 

 might, perhaps, be carried further with advantage in other scientific text-books, to show the 

 logical sequence of each portion of the argument by its position on the page. 



" If a Student could rely on remembering every word which he had ever heard or read, 

 such a book as this would be unnecessary ; but experience teaches that he constantly needs 

 to recall the form of an argument and to make sure or' the proper CLASSIFICATION OF HIS FACTS, 

 although he does not need a second time to follow the author up all the short steps by which 

 the ascent was first made. With a view to rendering the book useful for rapid recapitulation, 

 I have endeavoured to strike out every word which was not essential to clearness, and thus, 

 without I hope falling into 'telegram' English, to give the text the form which it may be 

 supposed to take in a well kept Note-book; at the same time, space has been left for the 

 INTRODUCTION IN MS. of such additional facts and arguments as seem to the reader to bear 

 upon the subject-matter. For the same reason the drawings are reduced to DIAGRAMS. All 

 details which are not necessary to the comprehension of the principles of construction of the 

 apparatus or organ, as the case may be. are omitted, and it is hoped that the drawings will, 

 therefore, be easy to grasp, remember, and reproduce. 



" As it is intended that the 'Note-book' should be essentially a Student's book, no references 

 are given to foreign literature or to recondite papers in English ; but. ou the other hand, 

 references are given to a number of CLASSICAL ENGLISH MEMOIRS, as well as to descriptions 

 in text-books which appear to me to be particularly lucid, and the Student is strongly recom- 

 mended to study the passages and papers referred to. Extract from Authors Preface. 



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