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Credit: A manual of veterinary physiology / by F. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![kind are necessarily slow, and as there appeared no reason- able prospect of covering within the space of one life tlie ground I had mapped out, I was advised that only good could result from placing on record what we do know of veterinary physiology. I have, therefore, ventured, I know well how imperfectly, to state the broad facts of the science, so as to render them of use to the student and practitioner. The work does not pretend to be anything more than a stepping-stone to the study of physiology; for those requiring more detailed information, reference must be made to the various text- books of human and comparative physiology which ai-e available. Incomplete as the work is, it would have been still more so but for the assistance I have received from my friend ])r. Sheridan Lea, F.E.S., of Caius College, Camljridge, who, at great personal inconvenience, has kindly read and revised nearly all the sheets as they passed through the press. In saying this, and expressing to him my very great indebtedness, I in no way wish to shift the respon- sibility for error or inaccuracy which may exist, but I feel that whatever merit the book possesses is entirely due to him. I have to thank Professor Michael Foster, F.E.8., for the loan of many of the woodcuts which illustrate this manual, and elsewhere I have acknowledged how much I owe to his encouragement. To my friend and colleague, Assistant-Professor Butler, A.V.D., my best thanks are due for assistance in revising](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21933480_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
