. Pathfinders of physiology. e work was issued in 1834. In 1838 SirAndrew Combe, an eminent English physician, published an Englishedition of the work, so as to give it greater publicity in the BritishIsles. Probably no fairer or more impartial estimate of the valueof Beaumonts contribution to science has been made than that ofSir Andrew in his preface to the British edition. Answering theobjection that Beaumont had made no original discovery in the phys-ology of digestion, this advocate claims that by separating the truthclearly and unequivocally from the numerous errors of fact and opin-ion
. Pathfinders of physiology. e work was issued in 1834. In 1838 SirAndrew Combe, an eminent English physician, published an Englishedition of the work, so as to give it greater publicity in the BritishIsles. Probably no fairer or more impartial estimate of the valueof Beaumonts contribution to science has been made than that ofSir Andrew in his preface to the British edition. Answering theobjection that Beaumont had made no original discovery in the phys-ology of digestion, this advocate claims that by separating the truthclearly and unequivocally from the numerous errors of fact and opin-ion with which it was mixed up, and thus converting into certaintiespoints of doctrine in regard to which positive proof were previouslyinaccessible, he has given to what was doubtful or imperfectly known 34 PATHFINDERS OF PHYSIOLOGY a fixed and positive value which it never had before, and which, beingMice obtained, goes far to furnish us with a clear connected and con-sistent view oif the general process and laws of CLAUDE BERNARD, PHYSIOLOGIST. 1S13—1S7S CHAPTER IV. GLYCOGENIC FUNCTION OF THE LIVER—VASOMOTORNERVES—CLAUDE BERNARD. For a man to be an investigator of the first order two gifts are perequisiteit is not merely necessary to possess a well-ordered and what we may term aphilosophic imagination, to possess a mind that is capable of balancing phenomena,seeing their relationship and deducing problems that have to be solved and the wayin which to solve them; there must be something more, namely, a mechanicalability, a love for technique, and a capacity to construct and manipulate the ap-propriate instruments. This is particularly necessary in connection with physio-logical resarch.—^Adami The real life of every notable character lies in the story of hisachievement, rather than in how he passed his days. Human interest,however, loves to dwell on the details of how he moved among hisfellowmen and the vicissitudes that befel him on his path throughlife. Ofte
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