Excerpt from The Physiology of Man, Vol. 5 of 5: Designed to Represent the Existing State of Physiological Science, as Applied to the Functions of the Human Body
The present volume completes the task, begun eleven years ago, of preparing a work, intended to represent the existing state of physiological science, as applied to the functions of human body. The kindly reception which the first four volumes have received has done much to sustain the author in an undertaking, the magnitude of which he has appreciated more and more as the work has progressed.
An elaborate treatise on the great subject of the physiology of man must be written, in this country, under certain disadvantages; and the attempt to give a fair and complete account of certain subjects has often seemed well-nigh hopeless. It soon became evident, in the progress of the work, that it is frequently unsafe to take references at secondhand, even from the best writers; and months of delay in the appearance of each volume have been due to the necessity of looking up citations, as it was desired to make reference only to original works.
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