PHYSIOLOGY 



quarter. I must not, however, spend too much 

 time in speaking of financial questions, for, al- 

 though money is the root of all evil, it is also the 

 root of a great deal of good. I must hurry on 

 to speak more particularly of some of the other 

 problems which modern Physiology has to grapple 

 with. 



Physiology is the bed-rock upon which Path- 

 ology, i.e., Physiology ' gone wrong,' is built. 

 Physiology used in the Scottish universities to be 

 called * the Institutes of Medicine,' because that 

 truth was realised by the earlier physiologists. 

 It is obviously necessary, in order to diagnose or 

 to remedy disease, where things have gone wrong, 

 that we should have a preliminary knowledge of 

 how things happen when they go right. It is my 

 duty, my principal duty so far as teaching is con- 

 cerned, to deal with medical students. Medical 

 students are a very hard-worked body, and from 

 time to time what is called the medical curriculum 

 has to be revised, as new subjects enter into the 

 sphere of medical learning. But the entrance of 

 every new subject means that one is attempting 

 to pour a quart into a pint jug, and so one sym- 

 pathises with the increasing strain thrown upon 

 our budding doctors, and one has of necessity to 

 shorten some of the other subjects in order to make 

 room for the new ones. There is a movement 

 going on just now in the Faculty of Medicine of 



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