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WE do not quite see why this little book should have been written. It is too technical to be useful as a popular volume; it is too diffuse, and yet too incomplete, to be a text-book; and it has neither the critical grasp nor the originality of an independent essay. There is a grand opening for some one to gather up all the recent advances in physiological physics, and weld them up together into a single book. When we took this volume in hand, we hoped to find something of the kind; but it really consists of little more than a straggling discourse on animal heat, and another on muscular contraction.
The Physical Phenomena of Life.—Les Phénomènes Physiques de la Vie.
Par J. Gavairet, &c. (Paris: Masson et Fils. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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F., M. The Physical Phenomena of Life—Les Phénomènes Physiques de la Vie . Nature 1, 134 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001134e0
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