Elementary Physiology

Abstract

THIS book contrasts favourably with most others of its class. A small treatise of three hundred pages on elementary physiology can scarcely avoid being superficial, and, from the students' point of view, inadequate; but to these inevitable shortcomings there are too often added, in books of the kind, the quite gratuitous defects of inaccuracy in statement and failure to keep up with the advance of knowledge. From faults of the latter description the work before us is practically free, and it may be commended with confidence to the junior student, who, as the author says, “is often plunged into a mass of detail, and gets so involved in this, that he loses sight of the main outstanding features of the subject.” Most teachers of physiology have probably had experience among their pupils of the mental condition here referred to. Lucid and concise in statement, Mr. Moore's book manages to convey a large amount of accurate information in very small compass. It bears ample evidence of being no mere literary compilation, but the production of a genuine worker in physiology, whose mode of treatment is often striking and original. As might be expected from the author, the book is especially strong in such matters as digestion, absorption and metabolism.

Elementary Physiology.

By Benjamin Moore With 125 Illustrations. Pp. vi + 295. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.)