ER throughout the United States.

AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY: on the Basis of the
'Precis Elementaire de Physiologie' of MAGENDIE. Translated, enlarged,
and illustrated with Diagrams and Cuts, by Prof. JOHN REVERE, M. D.,
of the University of New-York. In one volume. pp. 533. New-York:
HARPER AND BROTHERS.

The American translator and editor of the volume above cited is of opinion
that since the death of Sir CHARLES BELL, there is no physiologist who
stands so preeminent as an original observer and inquirer, or who has
contributed so much to the present improved state of the science by his
individual efforts, as M. MAGENDIE. In facility in experimenting upon
living animals, and extended opportunities of observation, no one has
surpassed him; while through a long professional career his attention has
been chiefly devoted to physiological inquiries. There is one excellence
which constitutes a predominant feature in his system of Physiology that
cannot be estimated too highly by the student of medicine; and that is,
the severe system of induction that he has pursued, excluding those
imaginative and speculative views which rather belong to metaphysics than
physiology. The work is also remarkable for the conciseness and
perspicuity of its style, the clearness of its descriptions, and the
admirable arrangement of its matter. The present is a translation of the
fifth and last edition of the '_Precis Elementaire de Physiologie_,' in
which the science is brought down to the present time. It is not, like
many modern systems, merely eclectic, or a compilation of the experiments
and doctrines of others. On the contrary, all the important questions
discussed, if not originally proposed and investigated by the author, have
been thoroughly examined and experimented upon by him. His observations,
therefore, on all these important subjects, carry with them great interest
and weight derived from these investigations. The translator and editor,
while faithfully adhering to the spirit of the author, has endeavored, and
with success, to strip the work of its foreign costume, and _naturalize_
it to our language. He has added a large number of diagrams and pictorial
illustrations of the different organs and structures, taken from the
highest and most recent authorities, in the hope of rendering clearer to
the student of medicine the observations and reasonings on their
functions. He has also made a number of additi