Neural Activity and Polypeptides

of the body physiology ? This could have been elicited from the patient not by a questionary but by listening to his verbal complaints; affording him time to speak; by noticing his hesitancies, pauses, moments of silence; by watching his movements, grimaces, gestures, and posture, long before attempting a physical examination, let alone investigations. "Search my heart and my reins," sang the psalmists, my heart and my emotions. Why should we take more notice of the sounds that come through a stethoscope or the rhythms of an electrical tracing than the sounds that come from a man's mouth ? Organ language, what the patient says, is the most important factor in diagnosis. If we afford him time he will tell us all. The G.P. requires not greater, bigger, nor better machines, but more time for listening.-I am, etc.,