Two surveys were conducted between 1994 and 1996. The purpose of the initial survey was to obtain demographic information about prebaccaulareate human physiology courses. Of the 117 responding physiology departments, 50% offered human physiology at the prebaccalaureate level to 14,185 students during the 1994-1995 academic year. The mean was 245 students per year (+/- 30 SE). Class size was lim...

Every second, in an average daytime light environment, hundreds of millions of photons enter the human eye and arrive at the photoreceptor layer of the retina. All our information about the visible world is contained in this rain of photons. The retina is a complex tissue, literally an extension of the brain, which transforms the rain of photons into bioelectric signals containing all the infor...

F.R.s. Fifth Edition. London: J. ?* h. c. unurcnui, 1930. Pp. XV plus 1039 with 543 Illustrations, 9 in colour. Price, 21s. net. The fifth edition of Starling's Principles of Human Physiology will be welcome to all students and teachers of the subject. Physiology has advanced with such rapid strides during the last few years that a new edition of the book embodying all the recent advances was u...