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Excerpt from Manual of Practical Physiology: Designed for the Physiological Laboratory Course, in the Curriculum of the American Association of Medical Colleges
Even in a guide for laboratory work these basic principles of action in the living substance cannot entirely be omitted. A number of the most comprehensive of these are brought out in the discipline on the laws of irritability, which for the physician are so important because all diseases are merely the external expression of deviations from the normal caused by irritations of one form or another. Next to the laws of irritability an insight into the modern concepts of osmotic pressure as formulated by Devries vant' Hofi, Arrhenius, H. J. Hamburger, and Jacques Loeb offer the most fertile lines for combined laboratory and didactic teaching and mental training. Then follow the Doctrines on fermentation, on cell catalysis, on immunity, internal secretion, on the ejects of inorganic salts on life processes, etc. The aim has been to start the practical instructions in as simple a manner as possible and gradually introduce, explain, and apply the Doctrines of General physiology. The apparatus used is almost entirely that of the Harvard Apparatus Company, the excellence of which American physiol ogy ows to the genius of Dr. Wm. T. Porter. Even if this talented worker had not made those many contributions of enduring value to physiology for which he is known, our science is lastingly indebted to him for the invention and improvement of absolutely indispensable apparatus which really made practical physiology possible in a much broader manner than it was before these instruments were perfected. As we could not be expected to improve upon the language of the designer we have largely used his own words in the description of apparatus. (from his Intro duction to Physiology.) 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.
