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The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice

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MEDICINE and physiology owe much to one another and neither can advance far without the other. Many of the greatest physicians have been physiologists as well and have spent years of their lives on physiological problems, but of recent years, and particularly in Great Britain, a generation of physicians has grown up with no real training in scientific research.

The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice

a University of Toronto Text in Applied Physiology. By Prof. Charles Herbert Best and Prof. Norman Burke Taylor. Pp. xxi+1684. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1937.) 45s.

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G., J. The Physiological Basis of Medical Practice. Nature 141, 57 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141057a0

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