THE VISCERA IN POSITION.

A

TREATISE

ON

Physiology and Hygiene

FOR

Educational Institutions and General Readers.

FULLY ILLUSTRATED.

BY

JOSEPH C. HUTCHISON, M. D.,

President of the New York Pathological Society, Vice-President of the New York
Academy of Medicine, Surgeon to the Brooklyn City Hospital, late President
of the Medical Society of the State of New York, etc.

N E W   Y O R K :

CLARK & MAYNARD, PUBLISHERS,

5 BARCLAY STREET.

1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,
By CLARK & MAYNARD.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

T O   M Y   W I F E ,

WHOSE SYMPATHY HAS, FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS, LIGHTENED THE
CARES INCIDENT TO

AN ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL LIFE,

THIS HUMBLE VOLUME

I S   A F F E C T I O N A T E L Y   I N S C R I B E D.

PREFACE.

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This work is designed to present the leading facts and principles of human Physiology and Hygiene in clear and concise language, so that pupils in schools and colleges, and readers not familiar with the subjects, may readily comprehend them. Anatomy, or a description of the structure of an organ, is of course necessary to the