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JAMA 100 Years Ago
October 3, 1903
JAMA. 2003;290(13):1786. doi: 10.1001/jama.290.13.1786-b

PROFESSOR SHERRINGTON'S VISIT.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.

At the opening of the new medical buildings of the University of Toronto on Thursday of this week, the address of the occasion was delivered by Prof. Charles Scott Sherrington of the University College of Liverpool. The new buildings in Toronto, beside being admirably adapted for the teaching of the medical sciences in a modern way, have been especially constructed and outfitted for the prosecution of original research. It is peculiarly fitting, therefore, that the distinguished director of the Thompson Yates Laboratories, who is England's greatest research physiologist, should have been chosen to make the formal address at the opening ceremonies. Modern physiologists are roughly divisible into two groups, one approaching the problems of physiology from the viewpoint of medicine and interesting itself, therefore, chiefly in the physiology of vertebrates; the other, from the viewpoint of general biology, physics and chemistry, more concerned perhaps with the simpler forms of life …

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