A Text-Book of Physiology
by Michael Foster (9781443273671)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3PREFACE. In the present edition I have made considerable changes and additions; but in the changes I have tried to maintain the character of the book as presented in previous editions; and the additions, with the exception of the histological paragraphs, are caused not by any attempt to add new matter or to enlarge the general scope of the work, but by an effort to explain more fully and at greater length what seem to me to be the most fundamental and most important topics. I have been led to introduce some histological statements, not with the view of in any way relieving the student from the necessity of studying distinct histological treatises, but in order to bring him to the physiological problem with the histological data fresh in his mind. I have therefore dealt very briefly with the several histological points and confined myself to matters having a physiological bearing. My friends Dr Gaskell, Mr Langley and Dr Lea have given me great assistance throughout, and their names might fitly appear on the title page, were it not that the present arrangement makes me alone responsible for all shortcomings. I have also to thank my senior demonstrator Mr L. E. Shore, M.B. and my junior demonstrator Mr Wingfield, M.A. for much valuable aid. The second and third parts will follow this first part as soon as possible. BOOK I. BLOOD. THE TISSUES OF MOVEMENT. THE VASCULAR MECHANISM. Section 4CHAPTER I. BLOOD. 13. The several tissues are traversed by minute tubes, the - capillary blood vessels, to which blood is brought by the arteries, and from which blood is carried away by the veins. These capillaries form networks the meshes of which, differing in form and size in the different tissues, are occupied by the elements of the tissue which consequently lie textit{outside the capillaries. The b...

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