A treatise on physiology and hygiene : for educational institutions and general readers : fully illustrated / by Joseph C. Hutchison.

  • Hutchison, Joseph C. (Joseph Chrisman), 1822-1887.
Date:
1895
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Credit: A treatise on physiology and hygiene : for educational institutions and general readers : fully illustrated / by Joseph C. Hutchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PUBLISHERS' NOTE Revised Edition, 1895 The sales of this work have in the last few years become so large that it has been found necessary to make new electrotype plates. The pub- lishers have taken advantage of this to have the book carefully examined with a view to discovering whether or no it conformed in every respect to the latest advances in knowledge of the subject. Very few changes in the text have been found necessary, and these few are of such a minor character as not in any way to prevent the use of the new and old editions in the same class. The main changes to be noted in this edition are as follows : Topical Outlines have been added at the end of chapters, which it is believed will be of great value to pupils and teachers. In some of them additional information has been given, which it has not been thought best to include in the text, but which may be found useful for the teacher in his class work. Such slight changes have been made in the text as were necessary to meet the requirements of the laws of the several states with respect to the influence of alcohol and narcotics. The book will be found to comply fully with all such laws and with the intelligent temperance sentiment of the country. A chapter on emergencies has also been added, which, it is hoped, will give the book a permanent value in the home and be of service to the many first aid to the injured classes that are being formed in all parts of the country. A number of new illustrations have been scattered through the book. The only other change of any prominence is in the experiments, which in the former edition have been in the appendix, but are now transferred to the body of the book as footnotes, where they will be more accessible as an aid to the teacher in more interestingly presenting the subject to the class. All the experiments, as well as the anatomical demonstrations, are simple, and the teacher will have no difficulty in reproducing them. Should there be failure at first, a little patience and a few trials will soon be followed by success. All complex dissections on recently killed animals, as well as all vivisections upon frogs, etc., have purposely been omitted, not only because they are unnecessary in teaching the rudiments of anatomy and physiology, but also because they would create disgust and abhortfencte in the majority of pupils.