Excerpt from Human Physiology: Prepared With Special Reference to Students of Medicine

The extension of the medical curriculum to a period of four years and the lengthening of the individual courses composing it present opportunities for the instruction of medical students in physiology which were not possible under the old system of medical education. If, in addition to this, the advances which have been made within recent years in physiologic science are taken into consideration, both the advantage of and the necessity for an enlargement and thorough revision of the first edition of this volume are apparent.

The same subdivision of the subject into Physiologic Chemistry, and Nutritive, Nervous, and Reproductive Functions has been retained, while so much of Histology has been added, not only in a section under that heading, but also throughout the text, as will enable the student better to understand the physiologic anatomy of the organs whose functions he studies.

Special attention has been given to the subject of alcohol in connection with its influence upon mouth digestion and gastric digestion, copious references being made to the experiments of Chittenden, Mendel, and Jackson, and to those of Atwater in the work of the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Drink Problem.

The experiments of Cannon and Moser in connection with deglutition, and of the former of these investigators in connection with the movements of the stomach, in which use was made of the Rontgen rays to elucidate the questions involved, have received extensive and well-deserved mention.

In the diseussion of the functions of the stomach, the results of the removal of that organ by Schlatter and Brigham have been described, to which has been added a detailed history of the cases operated upon by them, so far as relates to the points of physiologic interest connected therewith.

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