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A special emphasis of the book is more detailed attention than given in other text-books of physiology to the body's many regulatory systems.  It is these that provide what physiologists call homeostasis.  The reason for this special emphasis is that most disease conditions of the body are manifest by abnormal function of one or more of the regulatory systems.

1,210 pages, illustrated, tables

Publication Details

  • Published: 1966
  • Publisher: W. B. Saunders Company
  • Dewey Decimal: 616.07
  • ECHO Library: 616.07 GUY