Handbook of physiology / by W.D. Halliburton.

  • William Dobinson Halliburton
Date:
1919
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Credit: Handbook of physiology / by W.D. Halliburton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLISHER’S NOTE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 1917 This book has now been through twenty-five editions, and with the publication of this, the twenty-sixth, it may not be uninteresting briefly to recount something of its history. The original author was William Senhouse Kirkes, of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and the first edition appeared in 1848; it consisted of 705 pages, and con¬ tained 97 illustrations. The title-page mentions that Dr Kirkes was assisted by Mr James Paget, who was then Lecturer on Physiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dr Kirkes appears to have been a student under Mr (afterwards Sir) J. Paget, and tos have been im¬ pressed with the need of making more permanent the spoken lectures, and in his preface he thanks Mr Paget for allowing him the free use of his manuscript lecture notes. The book was, for its time, one of great excellence, reflecting the clear and accurate method of exposi¬ tion which always distinguished Sir James Paget’s work, and Kirkes* Physiology rapidly became the students’ favourite text-book, and new editions appeared rapidly: in these the book grew a little in size and in the number of illustrations, but showed otherwise but little change until the fourth edition came out in 1860, when Mr Savory’s name appeared as editor upon the title-page. Mr (after¬ wards Sir William) Savory was another of St Bartholomew’s worthies, and at that time was Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and Physi¬ ology at that Hospital. With the appearance of the sixth edition (1867), Mr Morant Baker (then Demonstrator of Anatomy) was associate editor, and by this time the book was different both in matter and arrangement, so that little of the original “Kirkes” remained. Up to this time the publishers had been Taylor, Walton, & Maberly, of Gower Street, the predecessors of the present well-known publishing firm of H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd. In 1869, however, the book became the property of the present publisheL(seventh edition), and this edition and the next (eighth, in 1872) were not much more than reprints of the sixth edition. The ninth edition (1876), how¬ ever, was completely revised, and Dr Klein, then the Lecturer on Physiology, appears to have been mainly responsible for the improve¬ ment. From the tenth to the thirteenth (1892) edition, the editor¬ ship was shared between Mr Morant Baker and Dr Vincent D.
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