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THE following extracts from an article by Prof. Max Verworn, of Jena, on “Modern Physiology,” published in the Monist for April 1894, seem to be well worth the attention of English biologists. It would be interesting to obtain in the pages of NATURE an expression of opinion from our physiologists as to how far the reproach is true, that “in treading the beaten paths we are making no progress in physiology, and have stood still for years on the same spot.” How far is it true that physiologists must revert to the point of view of comparative physiology, or the physiology of the endless variety of lower and simpler forms of life which was that which formerly so fruitfully shaped the research of the great master Johannes Müller? Is it, or is it not, time that the methods of horological physiology were less dominant and gave place to a determined and persistent study of living structure in its varied manifestations other than the frog and the rabbit?
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The Present State of Physiological Research. Nature 51, 58–60 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051058b0
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