Physiology

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

(2): ( n.) A treatise on physiology.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(from Φύσις , Nature, and Λόγος , a discourse), the science of the animal constitution, especially in man. This branch of self-knowledge is evidently of the highest temporal importance, and lies at: the basis of the practice of medicine. Modern education has recognised its claims by incorporating it among the common-school studies; and few of the coming generation, it is hoped, will be so ignorant as to labor under the popular delusions and superstitions to.whlich its neglect in former ages has led.