Physiology for Nurses (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Physiology for Nurses Some years ago the author wrote an "Elementary Physiology for Teachers, " the aim of which was to give prominence to those anatomical and physiological peculiarities of children with which it is important for teachers to be acquainted, but which are seldom referred to in small text-books intended for the general reader. The present volume is an adaptation of the earlier work to the needs of nurses. Various sections whose importance was chiefly educational have been omitted, paragraphs, sections, and chapters nave been added, and in parts otherwise unaltered a good many technical terms which were unnecessary in a book for teachers but which nurses are likely to hear in the course of their training have been included. Many references to the special features of childhood have. been retained, partly because children form a considerable proportion of the patients of most nurses, and partly because so many nurses are being drawn into the service of the educational authorities. Since the publication of "Physiology for Teachers, " important advances have been made in our knowledge in various departments of physiology, e.g. regarding the functions of some of the ductless glands, the part played by "hormones, " and cerebral localisation. Care has therefore been taken to bring the present volume up to date. At the same time it has seemed best to adhere to orthodox teaching with respect to questions still under debate. 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.