“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of ‘the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,’ and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.”—Ernest H Starling, MD

From his lecture, “The Wisdom of the Body” delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1923.

It is from this lecture that Cannon got the name for his book some years later.

He would be satisfied to see the work appreciated by those members of this group. Sadly, most of the research world has not heeded his words and believes they can understand the human body by merely studying its “parts.”

No analysis of a dead body can explain the function of a living one. Any attempt to ignore the intelligence within the body, will foretell the lack of intelligence of the observer.

Keep smiling!