CARPENTER'S HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. 



BLANCHARD AND LEA, 



PHILADELPHIA, 



HAV T E JUST ISSUED 



PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, 



WITH THEIR CHIEF APPLICATIONS .TO 



PATHOLOGY, HYGIENE, AND FORENSIC MEDICINE. 

 BY WILLIAM B. CARPENTER, M.D., F.R.S., ETC. 



A NEW EDITION, WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS BY THE AUTHOR. 



Beautifully Illustrated with Lithographic Plates, and over 100 Wood-cuts, 



IN ONE LARGE AND HANDSOMELY-PRINTED OCTAVO VOLUME. 



In preparing a new edition of this very popular text-book, the publishers have had it completely revised 

 by the author, who, without materially increasing its bulk, has embodied in it all the recent investigations 

 and discoveries in physiological science, and has rendered it in every respect on a level with the improve- 

 ments of the day. Although the number of the wood-engravings has been but little increased, a considera- 

 ble change will be found, niuny new and interesting illustrations having been introduced in place of others 

 which were considered of minor importance, or which the advance of science had shown to be imperfect, 

 while the plates have been altered and redrawn under the supervision of the author by a competent London 

 artist. In passing the volume through the press in this country, the services of a professional gentleman 

 have been secured, in order to insure the accuracy so necessary to a scientific work. Notwithstanding 

 these improvements, the price of the volume is maintained at its former moderate rate. 



In recommending this work to their classes, Professors of Physiology can rely on their being always able 

 to procure editions brought thoroughly up with the advance of science. 



The very rapid sale of a large impression of the first edition is an evidence of the merits of this valuable 

 work, and that it has been duly appreciated by the profession of this country. The publishers hope that 

 the present edition will be found still more worthy of approbation, not only from the additions of the 

 author and editor, but also from its superior execution, and the abundance of its illustrations. 



" We have much satisfaction in declaring our opinion that this work is the best systematic treatise on 

 physiology in our own language, and the best adapted for the student existing in any language." Medico- 

 Chirurgical Review. 



"This work as it now stands is the only Treatise on Physiology in the English language, which exhibits 

 a clear and connected, and comprehensive view of the present condition of that science. 



'Few individuals could have been found so well qualified as Dr. Carpenter for acting as the historian of 

 physiological science. He is endowed with great perseverance and industry, possesses a clear and logical 

 judgment, is able to see distinctly the salient points of the more abstruse and disputed doctrines, has 

 excellent powers of generalization, and can express his thoughts in lucid and correct language. In explain- 

 ing the general doctrines of the science, or in describing the phenomena attending the performance of 

 individual functions, he lays before the reader a judicious admixture of the most trustworthy facts, with 

 the inductions to which they lead, which cannot fail to give him a clear conception of each subject brought 

 under his notice. When he ventures upon any new generalizations, he never indulges in dogmatical and 

 bold assertions, but proceeds in a cautious and philosophical spirit ; this cannot fail to exercise a salutary 

 influence upon the mind of the student by repressing that tendency to hypothetical speculation to which 

 young and ardent minds are so prone. He omits no opportunity of pointing out how the physiological facts 

 and doctrines he is discussing may be employed in furnishing more scientific methods of treating disease." 

 The London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Sciences. 



"This work exhibits all the mental characteristics of Dr. Carpenter; great knowledge of what has been 

 done by others, clearness of conception, and lucidness of arrangement. Although entitled ' Human Phy- 

 siology,' many of its details are on Histology and Histogeny, or the minute anatomy and development of 

 tissues which man possesses in common with the rest of the animated creation. They, however, who are 

 lond of such investigations, and who is there who is not more or less so, will find the transcendental as well 

 as the more sober views of modern inquiries well depicted." American Medical Library. 



" Though the resources of the author's comprehensive mind are apparently devoted to the advancement 

 of new beginners in study, there is a splendid exhibition of the powers of analysis, an uncommon degree of 

 success in making abstruse objects clear, and in forcibly impressing upon others the laws of life which he 

 so well understands, which will give eclat to Dr. Carpenter's reputation when he will be insensible to 

 praise. All who can afford to have a good system of physiology should possess this; and those who are 

 able to keep pace with the progress of science should not be without it. No necessity seems to exist for 

 extracting from its pages, or commenting especially on any particular parts or portions of the volume, 

 because it is presumed that all who can will avail themselves of it. Probably this improved edition does 

 not cost more than one-third the price asked for it in England, and yet it is superior in very many respects." 

 Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. 



" It would be a dereliction of our biographical duty not specially to mention the highly-meritorious work 

 of Dr. Carpenter on the Principles of Human Physiology, a work to which there has been none published of 

 equal value in the department of which it treats, embodying, as it does, an immense store of facts and 

 modern discoveries in anatomy and physiology down to the present time." Dr. Ulack's Retrospective 

 Address. 



li It is a clear compendious resume of the existing state of Physiological Science, conceived and executed 

 in a genuine philosophical spirit, and peculiarly adapted to the medical student. All the received facts 

 of physiology are presented in a well-digested form and lucid manner, and the deductions made from them 

 show close reasoning, and a very impartial spirit. The author, though still a young man, has already won 

 a high reputation in this department of medicine. In a literary point of view, the present work, as well as 

 his other productions, are of a high order; hi? style is clear, precise, and unostentatious, at times rising to 

 positive elegance." Med. Examiner. 



