Physiology Books

Structure and Functions of the Body

Annette Fiske

Anatomy is the study of the physical structure and physiology the study of the normal functions of the human body. Chemical Constitution of the Body.—In the body only twenty elements have been found. ..

A monograph on sleep and dream - their physiology and psychology

Edward W. Cox

In dealing with a subject so old and yet so new, I can do little more than suggest explanations of phenomena. I do not venture to assert them. Those suggestions are submitted to the reader to induce h..

How to live - A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine

Adeline Knapp

In a general way, we may compare the human body to three closed boxes, one above another. These boxes are the skull, the chest, and the abdomen. Each one has its own special contents, formed to do a s..

An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart & Blood in Animals

William Harvey

The discovery made by Harvey was this: That the blood passed from the heart into the arteries, thence to the veins, by which it was brought back to the heart again; that the blood moved more or less i..

The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

Horace Fletcher

Nature certainly never intended that we should weaken, depress, and distress ourselves in the way that is common to present-day living, as is made evident by the prevalence of discomfort and disease r..