Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems / [by] George W. Crile. Ether day address, 1910.

  • Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943.
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[1910]
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Credit: Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems / [by] George W. Crile. Ether day address, 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    infections and injuries that we have not sufficiently considered the vital force itself. We have viewed each anatomical and pathologic part as an entity, and man as an isolated phenomenon in nature. May we not find in the law of adaptation under natural se- lection, and the law of phylogenetic association, the master key that will open to us the explanation of many of the pathologic phenomena as they have al- ready explained many normal phenomena? And may medicine not correlate the pathologic phe- nomena of the sick man with the forces of evolution, as the naturalists have correlated the phenomena of the sound man,—and disease as well as health be given its evolutionary setting ?