Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology / by John Angell.

  • Angell, John.
Date:
1866
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    PREFACE. This little book has been prepared chiefly for the use of students attending Government Science Classes and the upper class of ordinary day-schools ; but it is hoped it will also be found useful for those preparing for the Oxford Middle-class Examinations, for matri- culation, and as a first book for medical students and others, great care having been taken by the writer to secure the utmost degree of combined fulness and cleartiess compatible with the space at his disposal. The object of the author has, in all cases, been to communicate a sound and thorough rather than a superficially extensive knowledge of the subjects treated of, so far as the general plan and limits of the book would allow. Technical and scientific terms, having been first fully explained, are freely used, not only on account of the greater brevity and clearness which they permit, but also because of their advantage to the student himself, and of the absolute necessity of his being thoroughly familiarized with their use if he would pass the ordeal of the examination-room successfully. The writer has throughout aimed to communicate real in contradistinction to verbal knowledge, and the student is fully cautioned that no real knowledge of the natural sciences is to be obtained by mere reading, and is further strongly advised to supplement his reading by careful observation and examination of the various organs and tissues of the animals daily con- sumed as food, also to study and familiarize himself