Human growth and development

Abstract

anatomists in the old and new world. American Anatomy, illumined by the knowledge of how structure evolves, had come of age. The ensuing World War I depressed German science flor decades. American anatomists, their earlier task seemingly accomplished, shifted their attention to experimental and physiological aspects of Anatomy. The writer, who had studied with Keibel and F. T. Lewis, was no exception, having become involved in the physiology of the biliary tract, stimulated by the erroneous dictum that "the only function of the gallbladder is to support surgeons."