The wisdom of the body : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on St. Luke's day, 1923 / by Ernest H. Starling.

  • Starling, Ernest Henry, 1866-1927.
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1923
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Credit: The wisdom of the body : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, on St. Luke's day, 1923 / by Ernest H. Starling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eternal sleep that comes to everyone at the end of 1 allotted span of years, when man rests from his labou It is the pain, mental and physical, associated wi sickness and disability, or the cutting off of a man by disea in the prime of life, when he should have had many yes of work before him. To us falls the task of alleviati; and preventing this sorrow. In our childhood most of learnt that suffering and death came into the woi through sin. Now, when, as physicians, we stand i the other side of good and evil, we know that the sin, i which man is continuously paying the penalty, is n necessarily failure to comply with some one or other the rough tribal adjustments to the environment, whi we call morality, but is always and in every case ignoran or disregard of the immutable working of the forces Nature, which is being continually revealed to us scientific investigation. In spite of the marvellous increa in knowledge, to some aspects of which I have dra\ your attention, suffering is still wide-spread amongst i Only by following out the injunction of our great pi decessor, to search out and study the secrets of Natl by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a coi prehension of “ the wisdom of the body and the unde standing of the heart,” and thereby to the mastery disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve t burden of mankind. ADLARD AND SON AND WEST NEWMAN, LTD., IMPR., LONDON AND DORKIN