Lanterna Rally

Author: Wesley Mills

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 9781330406076

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Comparative Physiology for Students and Practitioners of Comparative (Veterinary) Medicine Some years of contact with students of comparative (commonly called veterinary) medicine, and a fair knowledge of the actual needs of the practitioner of this department of the medical art, have convinced me that the time has fully come when the text-books of physiology provided for students of human medicine, and which the former classes have hitherto been compelled to use, should be replaced by works written to meet their special wants and possibilities. In fact, so different from man are most of the animals which the veterinarian is called upon to treat, and therefore to understand, in health as well as in disease, that only the absence of suitable works of a special character can justify the use of those that confessedly treat of man alone. Unfortunately, till within the past year the English-speaking student of comparative medicine has been without a single work in his own language of the special character required. Within that period two have appeared - the excellent but ponderous Physiology of the Domestic Animals, by Prof. Smith, and my own Text-Book of Animal Physiology. It has, therefore, occurred to me that a somewhat smaller work than the latter, embodying the same plan, but with greater specialization for the domestic animals, would commend itself to both the students and the practitioners of comparative medicine. 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.