Formerly Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University.
The submaxillary gland is of importance not only for its own sake, but
because its anatomical connections and situation are such that it can be
subjected to physiological experiment, and a number of important results
have been reached which I may discuss at some future time.
Footnote 1:
Read before the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, January 7, 1886.
The results of my work are not only contradictory to the authorities in
histology, but also do not harmonize with the requirements of prevailing
physiological theories. Bringing this before you does not mean that I
ask you to accept either facts or conclusions. I am fully aware of the
difficulty of such work, the doubtfulness of the facts and the liability
to error in the conclusion. But it is just possible that some of the
younger members may fare as I did—have not all their time occupied by
practice—and if I enlist the interest of any in this most important
region I shall feel happy.
A number of years have passed since I undertook this question, and the
work on the nerve-endings on muscle, which I had the pleasure to
communicate to this society a few months ago, was undertaken more as a
study, to make myself familiar with analogous structures, than that I
expected to find anything new.