The Body at Work: A Treatise on the Principles of Physiology

Few subjects are as well provided with textbooks as physiology, yet it may be doubted whether the interests of the amateur of science have been adequately cared for. In this book, the author has endeavored to describe the phenomena of life, and the principal conclusions which have been drawn as to their interdependence and as to their causes, in language which will be understood by persons unacquainted with the sciences upon which physiology is based. And since this book neither aims at being an introduction to the systematic study of physiology, nor poses as an aid in the preparation for professional examinations, the author has treated with some thoroughness the more recondite and the more suggestive results of recent research, and have tried to indicate the trend of modern thought regarding problems as yet unsolved. The author has tried to reflect the intrinsic interest of the science apart altogether from its medical applications.