An Elementary Manual Of Physiology

Author : Russell Burton-Opitz
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330465202
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book An Elementary Manual of Physiology written by Russell Burton-Opitz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary Manual of Physiology: For Colleges, Schools of Nursing, of Physical Education, and of the Practical Arts The teachers of physiology in our Medical Schools are greatly handicapped at the present time by the fact that the material which must necessarily be presented to the students in preparation for their clinical years, is so complex that it can scarcely be dealt with in detail in the number of hours of teaching ordinarily allotted to this science. It would indeed be very helpful if the matriculates in medicine could also present certain credits in elementary physiology, in addition to those obtained in biology, physics and chemistry. The only objection that might be raised against the. establishment of more extensive courses in elementary physiology in colleges is that this change would tend to cause these institutions to lose their identity and purpose even more than they have at the present time. Obviously, a college is intended to disseminate general knowledge and not knowledge of a special or professional type. Thus, a college which permits its matriculates to crowd diverse courses in the fundamental sciences into the first two years of its curriculum and then passes these young men and women on to the medical schools, fails utterly in its purpose as a means of acquiring general culture. It is evident, however, that the mission of physiology is much greater than that of serving as an essential link in the chain of medical subjects, because it also possesses an eminently practical value as a general study. This fact is recognized more and more from year to year. Thus, many States now require elementary courses in physiology in preparation for licenture in teaching in secondary schools and high schools. These raised requirements have greatly aided in destroying the erroneous conception of the schoolboy that physiology is essentially a discourse upon the evil consequences of smoking tobacco and drinking alcoholic beverages. 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.