16 days ago - Translate

To my great shame, I must admit that I never opened it since I bought it, probably last century. Alas, no, it was the very same one, reprinted and republished. Needless to say, I was disappointed, until I started reading it in earnest.
Physiology at the end of the 19th century was very different from what we expect to find in modern textbooks today: how the organs and systems work, how different substances act on different aspects of the body, be it in material doses, toxic doses or dilutions;