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J. Anim Sci. 1966. 25:143-147.
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The King's Horses and King's Men—a Project Site Visit1

R. O. Geeep

Endocrinology Research Laboratories, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Abstract

Long ago there did abide among the forests of morphology and the springs of physiology an accomplice of the gods whose presence could be felt in the glow of life and whose handiwork could be seen among the afflicted. Through the ages aimless searching among the interlacing sinews and the branching springs revealed no trace of this mysterious inhabitant of the flesh. Just as the footprints of a phantom vanish over cliffs' edges into thin air or lead to blind caverns from which no tracks return, so did the clues and the suppositions come to naught. As always, legends grew and wise men from Aristotle to Vesalius sought to reduce their puzzlement by the imaginative excursions of their able minds. But the solution of one of the troubling mysteries of life was not to yield to such methods.

Like other mysteries riding the wings of fancy, this one too was capricious.

Footnotes

1 Presented at the banquet following the first day of the Symposium.






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