Physiology of the. Senses. By J. G. McKendrick and W.
Snod- grass. (John Murray.)—This is a capital example of a scientific study made as interesting as it really deserves. The many curious and remarkable evidences of the subtlety and delicacy of the senses, neglected by many a text-book writer as too undignified or unscientific, help to impress the beauty and fitness of the organs of sense on minds indisposed to pursue physiology with more than a superficial interest, A casual reader might pick up the volume before us and find any page he came upon to put forth some interesting and therefore instructive fact. As an instance, we may cite the case of an individual whose nose had been repaired by a piece of living skin from the forehead, feeling a headache in his nose. As a University Extension Manual this is just what is wanted.
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