A Text-Book of Physiology (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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IN this edition several Old cuts have been removed and twenty four new ones inserted. Twenty more pages have. Been added. Plates showing the movements Of the stomach and intestines in man by the Roentgenkinematograph have been given and described according to the latest Observations of the Munich School. These cuts have not appeared in any English textbook of physiology. The chapter upon Internal Secretions has been rewritten to a large extent. The pineal gland and the gonads have been considered. The correlation Of the ductless glands has been explained according to the'recent experi ments upon this subject. A description of the string galvanometer has been given. Electrocardiograms of the normal heart and of the heart in stokes-adams disease have been described. The centers of localization of motion in the cerebellar cortex have been indicated. The new test Of Abderhalden's for pregnancy has been explained. The increase of cholesterin in pregnancy has been noted. The researches from the medico-chirurgical Laboratory upon the exciting, inhibiting, and synergistic hormones Of the milk secretion have been incorporated. The latest facts in physiology have been recognized.

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