Ivan Pavlov Quotes

“As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat.”

“Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.”

“It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.”

“Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.”