The Design of the Organism

Abstract

— being part of an address given to the Society on 15th November, 1963

Medical students and clinicians prefer — for different but equally good and acceptable reasons — to be presented with simple and easily comprehensible explanations of physiological and biochemical phenomena. But, as I have been saying to my students for years, the body was not designed for the convenience of the medical student or the clinician, if, indeed, it can be regarded as having been designed at all.