Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New HygieneSinclair, Upton
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Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene
Sinclair, Upton
Hygiene
“Another experiment astonished me even more than this. We followed
Pawlow down through a long narrow hall and upstairs into a room which
was small and secluded, in a very quiet part of the laboratory, remote
from any noisy occupation, and there we found a brown dog standing on a
high table. It was a delicate and very intelligent looking animal. The
attendant sat near by, and the dog was prepared as the other had been.
As we came in, the Professor beckoned to us to sit down on a little
bench beside the wall and indicated that we should be quiet. He stepped
up to the dog, looked at him, and the dog recognized him with a smile
in the dog’s way of smiling!—and presently the saliva began to flow.
“Professor Pawlow was very much surprised. We had come into the room
and he had offered the dog nothing, but the saliva was flowing.
That was contrary to his expectation. He looked with considerable
astonishment at the attendant. The attendant quietly said, ‘You have
been feeding meat to the other dog, and he smells the meat on your
hands.’
“The dog had such a keen sense of smell that the odor of meat on
Pawlow’s hands even at a distance of several feet was sufficient to
cause the saliva to flow. So he went out, washed his hands and came
back. At this time, not a drop of saliva was flowing. The arrangement
was such that every particle secreted must come outside of the mouth
into these bottles. While we were waiting in silence, watching the dog
quietly, suddenly the attendant pressed his foot without making any
motion of the body at all, upon a little lever beneath his toe and the
result was the causing of a high musical note to be sounded, a very
high pitched tone.
“Instantly, in less than three seconds, the saliva was flowing into the
tube. We waited a little while until the saliva ceased to flow, then
the note was sounded again. Instantly the saliva began to flow.
“Professor Pawlow has been experimenting upon this line for a long
time. Other experiments were made. One interesting experiment was with
a large number of dogs. He had upon one counter a long row of dogs,
about a dozen, which had their stomachs fixed in such a way, and their
throats fixed also in such a way, that upon the secretion of the
gastric juice in the stomach the juice would flow out into a flask.
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