ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE: A Manual FOR THE USE OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND GENERAL READERS. T BY JEROME WALKER, M.D., LECTURER UPON ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND HYGIENE AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN; CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE KEITH With Original and Carefully Selected Illustrations. Boston ALLYN AND BACON 1890 PREFACE. THE following pages are based upon the author's lectures in the public schools of Brooklyn for the last eight years. Both as a physician in active practice and as a teacher, he has been impressed with the importance of truthful anatomical pictures as educators; and of the folly, on the one hand, of omitting from our text-books important points; or, on the other, of overloading the mind with a mass of technical material, which is of little value to the ordinary student. For that matter, it is assumed throughout the work that the time has gone by when students are to be compelled to study the natural sciences by committing to memory page after page of text-books. In the preparation of the book the active co-operation of men distinguished in special lines of work has been obtained. The kind of type and the color of the paper were selected under the advice of the wellknown physician and oculist, Dr. C. R. Agnew, of New York. Dr. L. C. Gray, Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases in the New York Polyclinic Medical School, and Dr. J. C. Shaw, Superintendent of the King's County Insane Asylum, have carefully reviewed the manuscript and proof of the chapters on the Nervous System. In like manner, Dr. A. Mathewson, Ophthalmic Surgeon to St. John's Hospital, and the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, etc., has reviewed the chapters on Sight and Hearing. Dr. E. H. Bartley, Analytical Chemist to the Department of Health of the city of Brooklyn, and Lecturer on Chemistry at the Long Island College Hospital, has examined that portion of Chapter X. which relates to water; Dr. T. R. French, Consulting Laryngoscopic Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, etc., and Dr. S. Sherwell, Physician to the Throat Department of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, have reviewed the manuscript and proof of the chapter on the Voice; and Dr. J. H. H. Burge, Surgeon to the Long Island Hospital, has reviewed the manuscript and proof of the chapter on Emergencies. In addition to this public recognition of the services of the above-named gentlemen, thanks are also due to Dr. A. N. Bell, the well-known editor of The Sanitarian, for the use of his choice library of sanitary works, and for many valuable suggestions and criticisms; also to Dr. J. H. Hunt, for assistance in microscopic work, and to Dr. B. F. Westbrook, Chief of the Department of the Throat and Chest of St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn, for an original illustration and for valuable suggestions. The book is believed to be a fair exponent of present physiological and hygienic knowledge. Throughout its pages the lessons of moderation are taught in connection with the use of each part of the body. The subjects of food, and of the relations of the skin to the various parts of the body and to health, are more thoroughly treated of than is ordinarily the case in such works. In regard to Stimulants and Narcotics, the main facts have been given. Care has been exerted to have all chapters reliable, not even omitting the one on Emergencies, which is often slighted in our text-books, thereby causing the directions given for the relief of the injured too frequently to be misleading. Figures 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 32, 41, 44, 45, 47, 54, 64, and 66, were designed by the author, while the remainder of the illustrations are from Sappey's Descriptive Anatomy and other reliable sources, and are in the main new to text-books of this kind. It will be well for the teacher to see that the more important points stated in the Introduction, especially those relating to technical terms and certain processes, are comprehended by the pupil before entering upon the study of the text. BROOKLYN, May 7, 1884. J. W. |