President's address / by Henry H. Donaldson.

  • Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938.
Date:
1911
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Credit: President's address / by Henry H. Donaldson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the nerve cells, but merely that the variations in the amount of waste products were less than could clearly be detected by the methods then employed. This completes my review. The investigations which have been put before you are mainly studies of the nervous system during normal growth, or when such growth has been modified by underfeeding. The results can be used I hope to make more complete and clear our notions of the construction and activities of this system, the diseased conditions of which are your chief interest, and thus add to the data by which your reasoning must be controlled. Once or twice I have turned aside to point out what seemed to be the immediate bearings of the laboratory results on the problems of the clinic. When thus turning, I trust that I have had your company. Be that as it may, my purpose has been ac- complished if I have made plain what is going on in one labora- tory in the endeavor to contribute to neurology, comprising as neurology does the structure and functions of the nervous system in health as well as in disease.