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HUXLEY'S “Lessons in Elementary Physiology” was probably the best book of its kind which has ever been written. It set forth the elements of human anatomy and physiology in so clear and concise a form, and the little volume formed so complete a compendium of the essential facts which had accumulated in the science with which it dealt, that it was at once welcomed as supplying a want which had long been felt—that of a popular and, at the same time, an authoritative exposition of the subject. Its success was enormous. Edition after edition was sold in rapid succession, and the booklet—for it was nothing more—was not only adopted in schools throughout this country as the text-book with which the teaching of physiology was to be begun, but it was soon translated into every civilised language, and even, it is said, into more than one barbaric tongue.
Lessons in Elementary Physiology.
By Thomas H. Huxley Enlarged and revised edition. Pp. xxiv + 611. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1900.)
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SCHÄFER, E. Lessons in Elementary Physiology . Nature 62, 363 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062363a0
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