The problem of age, growth, and death : a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell Institute, March, 1907 / by Charles S. Minot.
- Charles Sedgwick Minot
- Date:
- 1908
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Credit: The problem of age, growth, and death : a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell Institute, March, 1907 / by Charles S. Minot. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![strongly now, of getting to direct facts, I started a series of observations on the growth of animals, which have been continued for a long period, during which the research has expanded far beyond its original scope. While carrying forward my experi- ments on growth, various conclusions suggested them- selves ; some tentative, others more or less definite. These have been partially and briefly published at various times.-^ To review these publications now would serve little purpose beyond possibly establish- ing the claim of priority, and I will therefore merely enumerate them. Moreover, in the course of the following pages the more important results contained in these earlier papers are brought together. My experiments on growth led to a memoir ^ published in 1891, in the English Journal of Physiology. It dealt with the growth of guinea-pigs and is to be regarded as the starting point or foundation of the present work. Since then the experimental work has been continued, and data concerning the growth of other animals collected. They are given in the course of the following pages. ' Death and Individuality, ycz<r«. Sci., vii., 72-77 (1885), reprinted, Science, iv., ']2--]']. Researches on Growth and Death, Froc. Soc. Arts (Mass. Institute Tech- no!.), Meeting 310, p. 50-56. The Formative Force of Organisms, Science, vi., 4-6 (1885). Researches on Growth and Death and Biological Problems, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1S84, 517-521. The Physical Basis of Heredity, Science, viii., 125-130 (1886). '^ Senescence and Rejuvenation, first paper, On the Weight of Guinea- Pigs, Journ. of Physiol.^ xii., 97-153, pis. I.-III. (1891).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21170435_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
