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PROF. McFARLAND tells us in his preface that “medical science is, in fact, a branch of biology, and should be studied as such.”With this opinion we heartily agree, and we were fully prepared to find that the present volume would supply a long-felt want in demonstrating the importance of biological studies from the medical point of view. We still believe that the author has succeeded in doing this, but he has also succeeded in demonstrating the fact that a medical man is not always the most trustworthy authority on biological questions. The plan of the book is interesting, and, to some extent, original, commencing very appropriately with the cosmical relations of living matter and ending with a chapter on senescence, decadence, and death; and the author has successfully avoided the pitfalls of the type-system. Nevertheless, we can hardly share his somer what curiously expressed hope “that the writing will not be found too technical to be beyond the comprehension of any intelligent reader.”
Biology, General and Medical.
By Prof. J. McFarland. Pp. 440. (Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1910.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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D., A. Biology, General and Medical . Nature 86, 106 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086106a0
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