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THE present five parts complete the German version of Luciani's “Text-book of Human Physiology.” The first part opens with the general physiology of sensation, giving a brief but adequate critical review of Johannes Müller's doctrine of specific nerve energies, and of Weber and Fechner's psycho-physical law governing the quantitative relationship between stimulus and sensation. The greater part of the fifty-one pages composing the first chapter is devoted to cutaneous sensations. The second chapter, occupying more than sixty pages, deals with internal and visceral sensations. While the exposition is full of detail and interest, it would have gained in clearness by a more thorough account of the classification of cutaneous and deep sensations suggested by Head and Rivers. The second chapter closes with an excellent account of the labyrinthine sensations.
Physiologie des Menschen.
By Prof. Luigi Luciani. Ins Deutsche übertragen und bearbeitet von Prof. S. Baglioni und Dr. H. Winterstein, mit einer Einführung von Prof. M. Verworn. Lieferung elfte-fünfzehnte. Pp.782 + viii. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1908–1911.) Price 4 marks each.
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Physiologie des Menschen . Nature 91, 157 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091157a0
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