The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English

PART I.

PHYSIOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.

BIOLOGY.

In this chapter we propose to consider Life in its primitive manifestations. _Biology_ is the science of living bodies, or the science of life. Every organ of a living body has a function to perform, and _Physiology_ treats of these functions.

_Function_ means the peculiar action of some particular organ or part. T...