Lanterna Rally

Author: Arthur Keith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781330357729

Excerpt from The Engines of the Human Body: Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917 I therefore introduce the reader to the human body in its entirety - as a complete, living, and moving machine. In all of these three respects, I believe, this work differs from its numerous predecessors. While I have made my main appeal to the general reader - to the man or woman who desires to know what modern medical teachers think of the marvellous contrivances of the human machine, - I hope that the account here given of the human body may also appeal to medical men and to professional engineers. I hope, too, that students of Medicine and of Biology, as well as lecturers and teachers who have to impart an elementary knowledge of human Physiology, may also find assistance and guidance from its pages. I am glad to have this opportunity of thanking Sir James Dewar of the Royal Institution for much helpful counsel, and of acknowledging my indebtedness to Sir Thomas Wrightson, Bart., M.Inst.C.E., and to Mr Allan A. C. Swinton, F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E., for reading over the proof-sheets of those chapters which deal with mechanical and electrical contrivances. 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.