Manual of physiology for students and practitioners / by H. Willoughby Lyle.

  • Lyle, H. Willoughby.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Manual of physiology for students and practitioners / by H. Willoughby Lyle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. —♦— In compliance with a suggestion that the student of Physiology may have a book of convenient size, and at the same time sufficiently comprehensive, this Manual has been written. In writing, it, I have endeavoured to place before the student, as concisely as possible, the chief facts of Physiology, and with this end in view, have embodied the notes of the lectures, somewhat elaborated, which during the last sixteen years I have given to the members of my classes at King's College, London. The subject of Histology, so admirably dealt with elsewhere, has only been referred to in this volume in those cases where it directly bears upon the physiology of the organ under consideration. Similarly the Science of Embryology has not been dealt with seeing that it rather belongs to the province of Anatomy than to that of Physiology. Diagrams of instruments and details of experiments have, so far as possible, been purposely omitted, as I am convinced that accurate knowledge of these subjects can only be properly acquired in a physiological laboratory, and this Manual is in no way intended to supply the place of a practical text-book. In writing this book it has been my hope that it may prove of use not only to the student, but also to the practitioner, and I have endeavoured, wherever possible, to indicate the bearing of Physiology upon Practical Medicine and Surgery. In preparing this Manual, I have had the advantage of the help and advice of my friend and former pupil.