Physiological Archives, Vol. 2. Hull Physiological Laboratory (Classic Reprint) 14+

📒 Excerpt from Physiological Archives, Vol. 2: Hull Physiological LaboratoryLiving matter 15 a collective term for the quality common to all living organisms. Comparative physiology alone enables us to dis criminate between the general properties of living matter and the func tions of specific organs, such as the blood, the nerves, the sense organs, chlorophyll, etc. Nothmg has retarded the progress of physiology and pathology more than the neglect of comparative physiology. Com parative physmlogy shows that secretion is a general function of all living orgamsms and occurs even where there is no circulation. Hence it was a przori false and a waste of time to attempt to explain secretion from the expenments on blood pressure. Oxidations occur regardless of circulation and it was apriori a waste of time to consider the blood as the seat of oxidation. Comparative physiology has shown that the reactions of animals to light are identical with the heliotropic phenomena in plants. Hence it is a mistake to ascribe such reactions asthe flying of the moth into the flame to specific functions of the brain and the eyes. Sleep is a phenomenon which occurs in insects and plants, and it would be a waste of time to attempt an explanation of sleep on the basis of phenomena of circulation. The best interests of physiology and pathology demand that the systematic development of Comparative physiology be one of the physiological problems of today.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...