Excerpt from An Experimental Research Physiological Actions of Drug Secretion of Bile Of necessity the influence of a drug upon a diseased condition is the ultimatum of pharmacology, and every experiment upon a healthy bodily system, whether of man or animal, is merely ancillary to experiments with the drug in disease. Therefore, if we discover that a drug stimulates the healthy liver of such an animal as a dog, we do not infer that it must also stimulate the human liver in health, and still less do we conclude that it must also act thus in disease. The experiments on the healthy liver of the dog, on the normal, and on the abnormal human liver, are three sets of experiments closely related, but still distinct. The facts derived from any one of the three cannot be substituted for those of the other two. Each set of facts has its own proper place, and must be carefully kept there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.