. Tri-State medical journal . e conceived of as a purely psycho-chemical process. And from * Read before the Tri-State Medical Society at Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1895. 418 Original Articles. Ladd I read that The secretory product of the brain is the fluid found in certain of its cavities. This latteraffirmation is stupid. Not from thesequotations, alone, but from the workand conclusions of teachers of psy-chology, it is very evident that our in-stitutions of learning are in great needof the aid that physiological sciencecould furnish. Psychology in its largest and bestsense, signifies a stud
. Tri-State medical journal . e conceived of as a purely psycho-chemical process. And from * Read before the Tri-State Medical Society at Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1895. 418 Original Articles. Ladd I read that The secretory product of the brain is the fluid found in certain of its cavities. This latteraffirmation is stupid. Not from thesequotations, alone, but from the workand conclusions of teachers of psy-chology, it is very evident that our in-stitutions of learning are in great needof the aid that physiological sciencecould furnish. Psychology in its largest and bestsense, signifies a study of the Grecian- had no way of repre-senting the word soul, any morethan have we. But being recource-ful, the Greeks symbolized the wordsoul by the word psyche. We,by prefixing psyche to logo, have theword psychology, and if its deriva-tion goes for anything, have a wordthat is rich in its sublimation of noth-ingness. To the physician, as a phy-and one which should take the placeis the comprehensive and fruitul term. CHARLES J. LEWIS, M. D. siologist, a more appropriate nameof psychology in medical literature, CKREBROLOGY. Cerebrology is a study of the anatomy and physiology of the cerebrumand its sense-appendages, with a special reference to ideation and thought. A gland, as at present defined, is an organ having such vascular sup-ply that it abstracts from it certain raw materials which it builds up by itsown action into a new product. Such a product would be saliva, gastricjuice, spermatozoa. Notwithstanding this general character, the pineal,thymus and a few other similar bodies, are called glands, though theirfunctions are still in dispute. While all the glands draw their raw materialin common from the blood, the finished product is peculiar to each. Thepancreas secretes a digestive fluid; the kidneys excrete urine; the mamma-ry glands secrete milk for the purpose of nourishing another organism. I make these statements with the view of calling attention to the fa
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