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The Principies of Phtsiologt, nppliod to tho Proservalion of Health, and to tho ImpfOvemeBt of Mental and Pbysical Education. Hy Androw Combo, M. D. Fowler & Wells, New York. 3Ü0 pagos, mailable, price 75 cents. Tho public aro under mnny obligations to Fowoi' & Wells for tho cheap iind vnlunblo worka issued by them upon Physiology and Ihe Lnws of [loalth : and this is one oi' tho best of the numbcr. It is adupted to general uso, and contains a great amount of sciontilic lsnovvledge, put into a torna easily comprehondod imd romonibcrod. The nuthor a brother of Georgo Combe, tlie colobmtod Phronologist, in this volume treats of tho Slun. the Muscular System, tho liones, the Lungs, tho Nervous System, andthe Mental Faculties, and concludos with practical applications of the principies lnid down in tho discussion, totbo preservationof Health and Long Life. Although not cmbracing the extravagant belief of sorao, that perfect and uninterrupted henlth may be attained by the present generation, yet our nuthor contenda that constant care in the presoivation of Health, and n steady and systematic course of inquines and observations into tho causes of disenses, and tho means of provention, would ultimately reliovo tho human raco f rom nino-tenths of that sufleiïng vvhich is endured by the diseased, and which laxes so hoavily the physical energies and pecuniary nieans of tho woll. One great principie which Dr. Combe laya down, and espccially deserving of iiUcntioii in thia age of nostruins and patent medicines, is, that "'health is more froquently undorminod by the gradual oporation of constant thuugh disregarded causes, tlian by great and marked exposares of a;iy kind, and is consoquently more efl'ectually to be presorved by a jadicious and steady ohservance of the organic. lates in dally Ufe, than by exclusivo attention to nny particular functions. to the neglect of all the rest." The work cannot fuil to do good to every