Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.


Lectures on the Phenomena of Life Common to Animals and Plants (1878), trans. Hebbel E. Hoff, Roger Guillemin and Lucienne Guillemin (1974)

Claude Bernard Quotes

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its ...

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its ...

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its ...

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its ...