Students and teachers often express a need for an introductory text of physiology, one which is more readable than longer, standard texts, yet which will at the same time guide the beginning student into more effective use of a comprehensive treatise. This need is well satisfied by publication of the third edition of Human Physiology. Written as it is by a group of distinguished teachers and sc...

Ims book although it is only five years old has now cached its second edition?a fact which tends to piejudice the reviewer in its favour. The academic eacher ot to-day, with the curriculum as it is, knows at it is no easy task to instruct the medical student n physiology, keeping in mind that the study is not an en(' 111 itself and that only some fifteen months fan be devoted to it. The subject...