Georges Louis Duvernoy Quote

As an organ is exercised, circulation is more particularly directed to it and is more readily performed in it. Consequently, all its secretions and excretions increase. The more an organ is exercised, the more it is nourished.


'Réflexions sur les corps organises et les sciences dont ils sont l'objet', Magasin Encyclopédique, III (1799), 471. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum in Pietro Corsi, The Age of Lamarck (1988)


As an organ is exercised, circulation is more particularly directed to it and is more readily performed in it. Consequently, all its secretions and...

As an organ is exercised, circulation is more particularly directed to it and is more readily performed in it. Consequently, all its secretions and...

As an organ is exercised, circulation is more particularly directed to it and is more readily performed in it. Consequently, all its secretions and...

As an organ is exercised, circulation is more particularly directed to it and is more readily performed in it. Consequently, all its secretions and...