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This work is intended for those who are unacquainted with the structure of the human body. It is an attempt to explain to them the uses of its most important parts, in familiar and popular language. It differs, therefore, in this respect, from most works on physiology, which suppose some knowledge of anatomy in those who read them; and it does not treat of those topics, which, though highly important to professional students, could not with propriety be introduced into the studies of the young. It was thought that a knowledge of the functions of the principal organs of our bodies, would be not only useful, but interesting; and that the study of human physiology might prove as agreeable as that of botany or mineralogy. It is difficult, no doubt, to present the subject in a form at once popular and intelligible: it is not easy to avoid the use of technical phrases, and in some cases it is impossible to find substitutes for them. In every instance in which they have been employed in this work, however, they have been explained, and it is hoped in a manner so simple, as to render them intelligible to every reader. It was of course a primary object to make it easy of comprehension. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

Human body. --- Human anatomy. --- Human physiology.