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NEW (3d) EDITION JUST READY 



THE PRINCIPLES OF 



HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY 



By ERNEST H. STARLING 



M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P. 



Jodrell Professor of Physiology in University 

 College, London, England 



Octavo, 1315 pages, with 579 Illustrations, 10 in colors. Cloth, $7.50, net 



THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL says : "In the third edition 

 the student and medical practitioner will find a full and up-to-date ac- 

 count of the whole subject, clearly written, excellently illustrated and sum- 

 marized by a practical physiologist of great knowledge and well-known 

 originality. 



The first part of the volume deals with nutrition, including metabolism and the 

 general physiology, or the structural, mate- physiology of digestion, the part played by 

 rial and energetic bases of the body. In the the circulating blood and lymph, respiration, 

 second part the mechanisms of movement renal excretion and other such subjects, 

 and sensation are described; a new feature (Publisher's Note. — Much new material has 

 in this edition is the introduction of chap- been inserted in the sections dealing with 

 ters on vision by Dr. Hartridge, extending the internal secretions and ductless glands, 

 to over a hundred pages, in which the whole the sense organs and the foregoing sub- 

 subject is very lucidly put before the reader, jects.) The last part of the book is devoted 

 The third part describes the mechanisms of to the subject of reproduction. 



Everywhere Professor Starling writes as a man of science interested pri- 

 marily* in the mechanics and chemistry of physiology, the concrete rather than the 

 abstract,* the practical reactions of the living body rather than the metaphysical 

 conceptions or interpretations to which they may give rise." 



* Italics ours. 



New Works in Preparation 

 Principles of Biochemistry Qualitative Chemical Analysis 



By T. Brailsford Robertson, Ph.D., By Theodore J. Bradley, A.M., B.S., 



D.Sc, Formerly Professor of Biochem- Ph.G., Dean and Professor of Analyt- 



istry in the University of Toronto and ical and Organic Chemistry, Massachu- 



in the University of Cahfornia. Ready setts College of Pharmacy, Boston, 



soon. Ready soon. 



Text-Book of Hygiene Essentials of Histology 



By Eminent American Authors. Edited By Sir Edward A. Schafer, M.D., 



by William Hallock Park, M.D., Di- Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Physiology, 



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of Health, New York. Ready soon. tion. 



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