Reprints from the Writings of W.B. Cannon

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Страница 8 - I will indulge my sacred fury; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me...
Страница 8 - I was sure of my discovery ; what, sixteen years ago, I urged as a thing to be sought; that for which I joined Tycho Brahe, for which I settled in Prague, for which I have devoted the best part of my life to astronomical contemplations ; — at length I have brought to light, and have recognised its truth beyond my most sanguine expectations.
Страница 8 - Not only are the secretory activities of the stomach unfavorably affected by strong emotions; the movements of the stomach as well, and, indeed, the movements of almost the entire alimentary canal, are wholly stopped during excitement. ' ' * So you see that the proverb, "Better a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith," has a physiological as well as a moral basis.
Страница 4 - The medical investigators further maintain that judgment should be based on knowledge, not ignorance. They rightly insist that their critics are ignorant — ignorant of the conditions of medical research and ignorant of the complex relations of the medical sciences to medical and surgical practice. And they contend that these critics in their ignorance are endeavoring to stop that experimental study of physiology and pathology...
Страница 8 - It is noteworthy that in both the positive and negative results of the emotional excitement illustrated in Bickel and Sasaki's dog the effects persisted long after the removal of the exciting condition. This fact Bickel was able to confirm in a girl with cesophageal and gastric fistulas; the gastric secretion long outlasted the period of eating, although no food entered the stomach. The importance of these observations to personal economics is too obvious to require elaboration. "Not only are the...
Страница 8 - 'On another day a cat was brought into the presence of the dog, whereupon the dog 'flew into a great fury. The cat was soon removed, and the dog pacified. Now the dog was again given the sham feeding for five minutes. In spite of the fact that the animal was hungry and ate eagerly, there was no secretion worthy of mention. During a period of twenty minutes, corresponding to the previous observation, only 9 cc of acid fluid was produced, and this was rich in mucus.

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