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Présentation de l'éditeur
This outline is intended to aid those students of psychology who have had no courses in biology hovering the morphological and physiological data which are directly contributory to psychology. It is designed to convey the elementary information which is absolutely necessary, and to stimulate the student to further reading. Since the time which a psychologist can give to the study of biology is narrowly limited, it is essential that strong emphaisis should be placed on such details as are of the greatest psychological significance, although this results in a treatment which, from the physiological point of view, is extremely unbalanced. Heretofore, psychologists who have recognized the value of physiology have confined their attention almost exclusively to neurology. This neurology has been of little use to the psychologist, except as a terminological scheme in which he could restate his psychological facts and speculations. Of late it has been becoming clear that the pressing need in psycho-physiology is for the study of muscle and gland, and that only through the study of these tissues in their structural and functional relation to nervous tissue can neurology be made psychologically valuable. It is this point of view which has dominated the preparation of this outline. I hope that this book, which was prepared primarily for the use of my own classes, may be of service to other psychologists, at least until a more systematic and comprehensive text becomes available. Since it is, at the time of writing, the first book of its kind, it is entitled to the credit, and also to the leniency usually extended to pioneers. The cuts which accompany the text are from various sources. Some are familiar from having appeared in many places. I am much indebted tothose who have kindly given me permission to use or reproduce their illustrations, especially to Dr. Ramon y Caj
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