Abstract
The functional and nutritive interdependence of the
organs of the body may roughly speaking he regarded a
the basis of Organo-Therapeutics, or the administration in disease of the tissues or extracts of healthy
animal organs. The complex human constitution in
health is an organic unity. The health of any one of
its organs, as the brain, may be said to depend upon
three main factors; firstly, its own intrinsic 'endowments of vitality structure and function proper to the
great life-periods of development maturity and decadence; secondly, its immediate nourishment by a prone
blood and a proper nervous supply; and thirdly, its
proper environment. Dismissing the important factors
of vitality and environment, and confining our attention for a little to the factor of nutrition, we recognise the undoubted twofold aspect of the latter—
the nourishment of an organ from the nervous and from
the blood side.