MEDICINE AND MORALS 



the Brothers Weber on the inhibitory action 

 of the vagus ; the discoveries by Bernard of 

 the effects of section of the sympathetic 

 nerve in the neck leading to all the 

 advance in physiological and medical 

 knowledge included in the word 'vaso- 

 motor' and of the formation of glycogen 

 in the liver; and the observation by Waller 

 of the dependence of the nutrition of a 

 nerve on its continuity with the central 

 nerve cell of which it is a process. . . . 

 Professor Foster was careful to show that 

 all these discoveries resulted from experi- 

 ments on living animals." 



There is a perfectly enormous mass of 

 evidence by the highest authorities proving 

 incontestably the value of antitoxin in the 

 treatment of diphtheria. 



There is a disease called myxcedema, in 

 which the skin fills with pus. Feebleness 

 of the nervous system follows, and at last 

 dementia and death. The complaint is now 

 known to be caused, however mysteriously, 

 by the failure of the thyroid gland in the 

 neck to secrete properly. The connection 



