PARIS
WITH A PREFACE BY
W. D. HALLIBURTON, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.
PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1908
PREFACE
To scientific readers, Professor Charles Richet needs no introduction, but to the public at large it may be necessary to mention that he is one of the best known of French physiologists. He has occupied for a good many years the Chair of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, and he has contributed greatly to the progress of the science to which he has devoted his life; some of his discoveries are alluded to with all modesty in the pages which follow. He is, moreover, a man of great erudition, and has been wisely selected to be the editor of a monumental work, Le dictionnaire de physiologie, which is issuing from the press to-day.
Professor Richet has given particular attention to the study of the psychological side of physiology, and his views on pain will be read as coming from one who is specially fitted to deal with this and other mental phenomena.