Elements of Physiology

These three little volumes are all written with the very excellent object of giving to the young a general view of a science, which might have been expected to be the one most universally taught wherever education is afforded. The number of works which have lately issued from the press, designed to enforce those practical rules for the management of the body to which the study of physiology would of itself lead the intelligent mind, is a sufficient indication of the progress of enlightenment on this point. But we would have physiology and natural history studied by the young as a means of intellectual discipline; and we cannot