4 THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
of medicine. To sow the germ, the causa causans^ and watch its liarmless growth on the clear 
jellv, and analyse — or attempt to — the harmlessness that, planted on flesh and blood, can blossom 
to disease and death is, even apart from sentiment, a piquant occupation. And then, to extract 
from the emprisoned germ the antidote for itself, its antitoxin ! Pathology is the physiology of 
disease settling down before getting to quantitative work. 
It is not intended that the Laboratories now erected should be devoted only to Physiology 
and Pathology as directly applicable solely to the medical art. They are fitted out in such a way 
as to embrace their subjects in full range, not merely to meet a single technical application. 
The New Laboratories, while they will still be of utmost service to the Faculty of Medicine, have 
therefore been transferred from the hands of the Faculty into those of the College. The School of 
Physiology in the Thompson Yates Laboratory forms, indeed, an integral part of the College's 
Faculty of Natural Science, and it will simultaneously contribute to the teaching of students of 
Science, Medicine, and of Arts alike. On Physiology lean a number of other studies beside that 
of medicine. The study of mind. Psychology, fast gaining recognition as essential for the 
equipment of those entrusted with teaching, especially with teaching of the young, depends on 
Physiology, and in tlie opinion of some of its votaries entirely is Physiology. In the Universities 
of Canada and of the United States, where Psychology forms a part of the knowledge demanded of 
every professional teacher, the number of students pursuing physiological work consists by more 
than a half of these young schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. They attend in the theatre and 
laboratories of Physiology for a two years' — in many cases a three years' — course of study. There 
are signs tliat such a demand has arisen already in this country also. The activities of the 
organs of sense, of the muscles, and of the brain, are of prime import to every student of the art 
of teaching, and, psychologist as he must be, he follows eagerly the physiologist as their investigator. 
Provision is made in the New Laboratories for the teaching and study of these large psychological 
chapters. Interesting and valuable they are. Few even vaguely realise the delicacy, and the 
deficiencies, and above all the pit-falls of self-deception attendant on, the use of their own senses, 
until they have been systematically and practically instructed in introspection of them. 
Next, perhaps, to Psychology, the study called Hygiene, or the science of the laws of 
liealthy living, draws daily closer to Physiology. It is in fact Physiology applied to the daily mode 
of life of the community. The breathing space, the warmth and change of air requisite for 
healthy dwellings and workrooms, the choice of foods as a struggle between nutrition and cost, the 
dietary for diflferent ages of life and different kinds of labour, the question of healthy clothing, the 
proper distribution of light so as to strain neither the sight nor mind, and to avoid fatigue of 
vision, especially for the growing eye, the apportionment of labour so as to exclude excessive 
fatigue of either nerve or muscle —all these are practical subjects upon which the science of 
Physiology alone can adequately pass decision. 
So again with the many industries pertaijiing to Agriculture and Veterinary Science, the 
raising of stock, the feed of stock for work or to yield food for man, the manufacture of manures, 
the arts of the brewhouse, the bakery, the tannery, the dairy — all these depend on physiological 
science. The preparation of silks, of wools, of furs, for clothing and furniture; the processes of 
