Text-book of human physiology : including histology and microscopical anatomy with especial reference to the practice of medicine / by L. Landois.

  • Landois, L. (Leonard), 1837-1902.
Date:
[1904], ©1904
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Credit: Text-book of human physiology : including histology and microscopical anatomy with especial reference to the practice of medicine / by L. Landois. 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' PREFACE. The fourth EngHsh edition of Professor Stirhng's translation of Landois' Physiology, published in 1891, has been out of print for some years. Since the date of publication of this English edition, the work has passed through three more large editions in Germany. On each occasion Professor Landois still further enhanced its merits by incorporating all those results of physiological investigation which in his judgment would have a permanent value not only for advanced students but for practitioners of medicine as well; and hence there is probably no work which so thoroughly and satisfactorily represents the existing state of physiological science and its relations to patholog}' and clinical medicine, as that of Professor Landois. For the reason that pathological processes are but variations of physiological processes in one direction or another, there is appended to almost every section those variations which are regarded by the clinician as pathological. In this way the student is made to realize not only the close interdependence of physiology and pathology, but the necessity for a thorough and accurate knowledge of the former for an intelligent comprehension of the latter. The work of Landois thus becomes a guide which conducts the student from the physiological laboratory to the work of the clinician. That it has been successful in this respect, and that it meets the needs of students and practitioners of medicine, is the only explanation that can be offered for the ex- traordinary fact that it has passed through ten large editions in Ger- many in twent}^ years, and, in addition, has been translated into French, Russian, English, Italian, and Spanish. The continued success of each successive edition in Germany and the frequent requests for an English edition have convinced the pub- lishers that a new translation would be acceptable to students and practitioners of the present day and decided them to issue the work in its present form. The translation was intrusted to Dr. A. A. Eshner, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. In this he was ably assisted by Drs. Bernard Kohn, E. A. Shumway, Maurice Ostheimer, R. Max Goepp, Brooke M. Anspach, C. A. Fife, D. J. McCarthy, and W. B. Stanton. The text has been revised and edited by Dr. Albert P. Brubaker, Professor of Physiology in the Jefiferson Medical College. The proof has been largely read and the index pre- pared by Dr. Colin C. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Physiology in Dartmouth College. The publishers wish to express their appreciation of the conscientious care which has been given by each and all to the preparation of this edition.