At the same time this is an extremely important practical application of the power of human knowledge, which may also be of immediate use to man, who, due to the implacable fortuities of life, is often mutilated in similar, though more varied ways.

As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other gl…

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know t…

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in nu…

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.