Function and Neural Regulation of Internal Organs

Abstract

First I would like to thank the Rector for the great honor bestowed upon me by the University and also for his kind words of introduction. I am also thankful that he has given me guidelines for my lecture today. It would be of interest to the audience, he suggested, to learn about the stages of development of the work which has today placed me in the limelight of the scientific and medical community by the award of the Nobel Prize. By accepting with pleasure the Rector’s proposition I am spared from the suspicion that the following address awakes the impression of egocentricity, which would be embarrassing for you as well as for me. Thus, I stand here before you not as an individual but rather as a representative of a certain way of scientific endeavor and of a field of knowledge which has profited from it.

Hess, W.R.: Funktion und nervöse Regulation der inneren Organe. Vierteljahrsschr. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich 95, 249–264 (1950)

Lecture held on 1 November 1949, in the Main Lecture Hall of the University of Zurich on the occasion of the ceremony celebrating the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology