A TEXT BOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY, Revised & Abridged

by Foster M.D., Sir Michael

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1904. Hardcover; Hamilton College bookplate, no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; leaf 725/726 has paper flaw in margin not affecting text.. + index. With over 200 in-text b&w drawings. 1904 printing of 1896 `New Edition,' abridged from his 1894 6th edn., including Sheridan Lea's `Chemical Analysis of the Human Body.' ||| Foster (1836-1907), `one of the greatest of modern teachers of physiology...many great scientists are numbered among his pupils'--Garrison- Morton. ||| Foster `founded Cambridge School of Physiology, The Journal of Physiology; [he was] a founder of British Physiological Society; & did original research on the heartbeat'--DSB.