THE HISTORY OF ANATOMICAL SCIENCE 277 
of subordinate interest. By a curious and some- 
what unfortunate chance, the name of ‘ physi- 
ologist,’ originally applied to those primal philo- , 
sophers of ancient Greece who took all Nature for 
their province, has been inherited by the investi- 
gators of function, to whom it has no more special 
application than to any other students of Nature. 
Arrived at the parting of the ways,^ the one 
of which leads to the province of physiology, the 
other to that of morphology, we must take the 
latter. It is no disparagement to Owen to say 
that he was not a physiologist in the modern 
sense of the term. In fact, he had done a large 
part of his work before modern physiology, in 
which no progress can be made without clear 
mechanical, physical, and chemical conceptions, 
came into existence ; and I think it may be 
doubted whether he ever became fully aware of 
the vastness of the interval which separates the 
physiology of John Hunter from the physiology 
of Johannes Muller and his successors. 
Morphology has grown out of anatomy ; and 
anatomy, like most branches of science, if not 
begotten and born amongst the ancient Greeks, 
was nurtured and brought up in the way it should 
' It will be understood that 
the separation between Morpho- 
logy and Physiology can be 
maintained only so long as the 
view is confined to the pheno- 
mena of form or to those of 
function. Both are equally 
important to the aetiologist, 
who seeks for the causes of 
biological phenomena. 
