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THE present edition of Dr. Flint's “Human Physiology” is a capital manual of the subject. The book has been re-written from the third edition, which was published nine years ago. As might have been expected from the author of the previous work, the style of the text is always clear and eminently readable. Upon the whole the selection of the matter is good, and the illustrations are almost without exception excellent. Detailed description of apparatus and of methods of experiment has been excluded as unsuited to the character of the book. In the same way digression into the laws of physical and chemical science has been avoided as far as possible, on the ground that such knowledge is already within the possession of the student of physiology, or that to obtain it he can turn with advantage to special treatises.
A Text-book of Human Physiology.
By Dr. Austin Flint. Fourth Edition. (London: Lewis, 1888.)
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S., C. A Text-Book of Human Physiology. . Nature 40, 74–75 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040074a0
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