Note 72 — Chapter IV · Some General Considerations.

Of a brilliant teacher of physiology, one who was himself intensely interested in the sciences bordering on his own subject, it was related that when, in lecturing upon the functions of the nervous system in man, he approached difficult problems, he used to say, “But that is a matter for the psychologist.” Whereupon the class heaved a sigh of relief and prepared to take notes upon the next subject.