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had worked wonders in the hands of the master, had remained without 

 effect in theirs, in apparently identical cases. One might, perhaps, 

 suppose that the celebrated clinician would have been satisfied both 

 inwardly and outwardly with such results. But his deeper under- 

 standing, unalloyed by these triumphs, always sought in the laboratory, 

 by the aid of experiment upon animals, the key to the great puzzle ; 

 " What is a sick man and how is he to be helped ? " Before my own 

 eyes he has directed many of his pupils to the laboratory. And 

 this great appreciation of the method of experiment on the part of a 

 clinician, in my opinion, does no less honour to the name of S. P. 

 Botkin than his clinical activity, which is known to all Russia. 



With this I close my lectures, gentlemen. Much of what has here 

 been communicated will no doubt be welcome to the practical physician. 

 He will often find in our physiological facts an explanation of patho- 

 logical phenomena, and by a knowledge of the true state of affairs will 

 be led to the employment of effective remedial measures. Physicians 

 would, however, secure to themselves further advantage, if they 

 imparted to the physiologists in what way the explanations, in their 

 opinion, may need adjustment ; and also if they further pointed out 

 new phenomena in the subject of digestion which have cropped up in 

 the broad world of clinical observation, but which have not yet entered 

 the field of cognisance of the physiologist. My belief extends to this : 

 That it is only by an active interchange of opinion, between the physio- 

 logist and the physician, that the common goal of physiological science 

 and of medical art will be most quickly and securely reached. 



