The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod.

  • Garrod, Archibald E. (Archibald Edward), Sir, 1857-1936.
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1924
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Credit: The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    meals, are throwing yet further light upon phys logical as well as pathological processes. The knowledge acquired in recent years of t mechanism of the heart’s action is a triumph scientific clinical medicine. This work, which is closely associated with the names of James Mackenz Thomas Lewis, Wenckebach, and Einthoven, has be gained mainly by the study of derangements of t heart’s beat in man, by means of the polygraph a: electro-cardiograph. But perhaps the most striking examples of all a afforded by the work which has been done upon t nervous system. Bouillaud described clinical ai pathological physiology as the sister of experiment physiology, and since the middle of the nineteen' century an immense amount of knowledge of t. functions of the brain and spinal cord has been acquir by the labours of a band of brilliant investigators, whom many are our own countrymen, and most wei or are, physicians or surgeons. Of these I may menti(| Hughlings Jackson and David Ferrier, Charles Beevc Victor Horsley, and Henry Head in this country, atj on the Continent, Hitzig, Erb, Westphal, and Pier' Marie. By their researches they have furthered t] work of the pure physiologists, Sherrington, Gaske Langley, Gotch, and others. As regards localization, the first definite ste] indicating that the brain does not function as a who! but as a congeries of organs, was the localization 1 Broca of the motor speech-centre, in 18 61, which w based upon the positions of the lesions in fatal cas< of aphasia, and Hughlings Jackson’s study of coi vulsions due to cortical lesions. These observatioi served as stimuli and pointed a way which was followe by many other observers, but by a not unfamiliar iror of things the assignment of a speech-centre to tt convolution of Broca no longer meets with acceptance Lastly may be cited the work of Head upon tf seats of pain due to visceral lesions, and upon epicrit: