Download or read book Elements of the General and Minute Anatomy of Man and the Mammalia written by Gerber Gerber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Elements of the General and Minute Anatomy of Man and the Mammalia: Chiefly After Original Researches Anatomy, then, has the structure of organic beings for its object. But we do not limit our selves to the study of the structure alone; we have ever an eye to something beyond this to the uses or functions, namely, of the organs we discover. A new science is therefore engrafted upon anatomy, a science which treats of the functions of organised beings, and this is entitled physiology. Like anatomy, physiology is sub divided variously, and is appropriately designated according to the direction in which it is studied. We do not, however, speak of a morbid physiology as we do of a morbid anatomy, when we consider the functions of an organism in a state of disease. Pathology is the term which is here employed; so that pathology is to be understood as having the same relation to physiology which morbid anatomy has to normal anatomy. Anatomy and physiology, however, ought never to be Viewed as sciences altogether disjoined and different; they are, indeed, so closely linked together, that they are all but one and the same in anatomy, we study the organs in repose, in physiology, we study them in action. 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.