Excerpt from The Nervous System, and Its Conservation There are several excellent books devoted to the anat omy of the nervous system, there are others which treat of its physiology in an illuminating way, and others still which deal with its hygiene. If the present volume is not to be an impertinence, it must be justified by its attempt to combine some elements of the three. The intention has been to present no more anatomy than is essential to an appreciation of the correlated physiology and to subordinate the physiology, in its turn, to the teaching of hygiene. In the chapters which deal with structure and func tion the writer has tried to gather his material from authoritative sources. In those occupied more largely with hygiene, personal judgments have doubtless found expression. But the desire has been not so much to dictate in a dogmatic spirit as to open important mat ters to fuller discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.