The house of life : human physiology, with its applications to the preservation of health for use in classes and popular reading / by F. Fenwick Miller.

  • Miller, Florence Fenwick, 1854-1935.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The house of life : human physiology, with its applications to the preservation of health for use in classes and popular reading / by F. Fenwick Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Numerous as are the works that have been pub- lished upon Elementary Physiology and upon Hygiene, as separate subjects, I am not aware that one exists at all resembling this volume, either in intention or arrangement. Indeed, I have been partly induced to write this little work by feeling the want of such an one to recommend for reading, when I have been lecturing to public audiences, or teaching classes of women in this subject. The distinctive feature of this book is that it not only treats of physiology, but, at the same moment, of health : its science is sufficiently full and precise to make it a suitable text-book for classes and students (whether preparing for the South Kensington first-stage examination or not), while at the same time the practical application of that science is everywhere shown, and the long preservation of a healthy life is taught by and through the structure of the House of Life. I am convinced that for popular study (that is to say.