William Francis Ganong was a Canadian botanist and historian who significantly contributed to the historical and geographical understanding of his native New Brunswick. His professional career focused on botany, serving as a professor at Smith College. However, in his private life, he dedicated himself to studying the history and mapping of his homeland, often creating his own maps of his explorations. His lifelong interest in nature and languages, including knowledge of Indigenous tongues, enriched his research.
Organized by organ system, each chapter discusses normal structure and function, pathology and disordered physiology, common clinical presentations and mechanisms underlying symptoms and signs. Emphasizing the more common disease states and processes, this book focuses on the problems most commonly encountered by physicians in everyday clinical practice.
This review presents anatomic considerations, physiology and clinical examples. Ganong begins with an introduction to the cellular bases of medical physiology, and cell physiology is interwoven into the text where applicable.
Ideal for self-assessment and USMLE Step 1 review. A Doody's Core Title! Provides a current and concise overview of mammalian and human physiology. Thoroughly revised and updated, examples from clinical medicine have been integrated throughout the chapters to illuminate important physiologic concepts. Features more than 700 illustrations and a self-study section with 630 multiple choice questions.
