PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE LOWER ANIMALS

 J.A.Ramsey, CUP 1962.

‘The mammal is a highly-tuned physiological machine carrying out with superlative efficiency what the lower animals are content to muddle through with.’ To understand the physiology of the lower animals, therefore, it is best to start from the general biochemical principles and then to consider how they present themselves in different ways at the physiological level, according to the size of the animal, the plan upon which it’s body is organized and it’s mode of life.

In Dr. Ramsey’s introductory study, for the first year at the University and the most advanced pupils in schools, each chapter takes as it’s subject one function of living matter and discusses how it is carried out in different animals.

The chapters are headed: Nutrition, Circulation, Respiration, Excretion, Muscle and Nerve, Sense Organs, Coordination, Behaviour.

The book has benefited from having a clear cover fitted and apart from a small, neat, ink name inscription is in very good condition, with nice clean pages and still tightly bound.