Excerpt from A Text-Book on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene, for the Use of Schools and Colleges Although the chief object has been to prepare a text-book for academic students, the work is also designed for the use of schools and families; and students of medicine will find that it contains a few hints of value to them, especially in Lecture XXVII., which has been added for their benefit. The division of Hygiene will be found to present many facts of interest to the general reader; and, in view of the measured but apparently inevitable approach of cholera to our shores, we have in the last lecture given a short summary of the means by which we may hope to, avoid its attack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: A Text-Book for Schools, Academies, Colleges 1. All bodies, or masses of matter, on the earth may be separated into two classes; the organized and the unorganized. The organized bodies comprise all animals and all vegetables; the unorganized bodies comprise the air, gases, water, soils, ores, stones, and rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: A Manual for the Use of Colleges, Schools, and General Readers If the pupil is not obliged to memorize the contents of the book in detail, but merely to grasp the salient points of the text, and carefully to read the footnotes and appen dix in connection with it, he will not find it difficult to acquire knowledge which will be to him both a pleasure and a gain. The services of Professor Atwater, Dr. T. D. Crothers, Dr. Eliza Mosher, Dr. E. H. Bartley, Dr. T. R. French, Dr. A. Mathewson, Dr. R. L. Dickinson, Dr. J. Scott Wood, Dr. J. 0. Shaw, and others, in the revision of various portions of the manuscript or in other ways, are gratefully acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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