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THIS work was originally published in 1876, and it has become so widely known that we need not now do much more than note the appearance of the first instalment of a new edition. In this edition—the fifth—considerable changes and additions have been made. The changes, however, do not affect the character of the book; and Prof. Foster explains that the additions, with the exception of the histological paragraphs, are caused, not by any attempt to add new matter or to enlarge the general scope of the work, but by an effort to explain more fully and at greater length what seem to him to be the most fundamental and most important topics. He has introduced some histological statements, not with the view of in any way relieving the student from the necessity of studying distinct histological treatises, but in order to bring him to the physiological problem with the histological data fresh in his mind. Hence in dealing with the several histological points the author has confined himself to matters having a physiological bearing. This first part will be followed as soon as possible by the second and third parts.
A Text-book of Physiology.
By M. Foster Fifth Edition. Part 1. comprising Book 1. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 564 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038564a0
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