Treatise on human physiology : For the use of students & practitioners of medicine / By Henry C. Chapman. Illustrated with 595 engravings.

  • Henry Cadwalader Chapman
Date:
1899
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Credit: Treatise on human physiology : For the use of students & practitioners of medicine / By Henry C. Chapman. Illustrated with 595 engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To those familiar with the many excellent German, French, and English treatises upon Physiology, it may appear strange that the author should feel it incumbent upon himself to offer one more con- tribution upon such a well-worn theme. The experience, however, of the past eight years, as Professor of the Institutes of Medicine or Physiology in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, has convinced the author that there is a want felt by students and prac- titioners of medicine for a systematic work, representing the exist- ing state of physiology and its methods of investigation, and based upon comparative and pathological anatomy, clinical medicine, physics, and chemistry, as well as upon experimental research. It is the hope of the author that the present work, embodying essen- tially liis teaching, will not only supply such a want, but will facili- tate and stimulate the study of this most important branch, the institutes, that is to say, the foundation of all rational medicine. The author takes much pleasure in here expressing his acknowl- edgments to Dr. A. P. Brubaker, Demonstrator of Physiology in the Jefferson ]\Iedical College, for the assistance rendered in the performance of the experimental part of the work ; to Arthur E. Brown, Esq., Superintendent of the Zoological Garden, of Philadel- phia, for the many facilities and courtesies extended in the dissec- tion of the rare animals that have died at the Garden, the results of which are frequently made use of in the work, and to Dr. I^awrence Wolff, Demonstrator of Chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College, for the favor of seeing the work through the press. HEXRY C. CHAPMAN.