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to dress to secure health and strength. Everyone must admire Dr. 

 Parkes for the unhesitating manner in which he denounces the absur- 

 dities of many of our articles of military clothing. Our soldiers have 

 been everywhere, and' in every direction sacrificed, from the fact that 

 the men in command have been ignorant of the first principles of 

 Military Hygiene. It is to be hoped that after the publication of 

 this work we shall no more be called upon to read the sickening de- 

 tails of a second Military Commission, but that the authorities at the 

 Horse Guards, animated by the noble spirit of the late Lord Herbert, 

 will see that the best way to secure courageous and intrepid soldiers 

 is to treat them- as men having minds and bodies regulated by Divine 

 laws, which if broken must lead to their natural punishment, disease 

 and death. 



HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY.* 



The fact that so large a work as this has, in the course of a few years, 

 reached the sixth edition, is a sufficient guarantee of the utility and 

 value of its contents. Whilst we have several other works of equal, 

 or nearly equal, magnitude, and going over precisely the same field of 

 research, Dr. Carpenter's book is undoubtedly unrivalled in point of 

 style and arrangement. Whilst less of an original observer than some 

 other writers on Systematic Physiology, no one has more firmly 

 grasped the great principles of Biological Science, nor shown himself 

 more capable of conveying in thoughtful language the result of the 

 labours of others. In every new edition also the author has kept 

 pace with the progress of his Science, a labour of no mean order, 

 when it is considered how rapidly the various branches of Physio- 

 logical inquiry have progressed. In reading this work we cannot but 

 feel that the author must have made it a labour of love ; that higher 

 thoughts have inspired him than either the profit or the reputation of 

 the work ; he must have felt that he had a mission to fulfil, and that 

 was, the instructing his countrymen in the elements of a science 

 whose principles are tridy one of the keys to human happiness. It 

 must have been with a pang of regret that he felt himself called upon 

 to obtain the assistance of younger hands to enable him to complete 

 his sixth edition. We do not think that it redounds to the credit of 

 England that she has nothing with which to reward one of her most 

 distinguished Physiologists, but a post that compels him to give up 

 his physiological studies. It is in consequence of this want of any 

 thing like national encouragement of the culture of the Natural 

 Sciences, that we are obliged to yield the palm of physiological dis- 

 covery to the Continent, and to see our most promising men of Science 



* 'Principles of Human Physiology.' By William B. Carpenter, F.K.S., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. Sixth edition. Edited'by Henry Power, M.B. Lond. London : 

 John Churchill & Sons. 



