The influence of alcohol and other drugs on fatigue : the Croonian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1906 / by W.H.R. Rivers.

  • Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The influence of alcohol and other drugs on fatigue : the Croonian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1906 / by W.H.R. Rivers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The lectures printed in this book differ from those delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in some details of arrange¬ ment, and in the addition of new matter derived from later work ; but the changes have not altered the general character of the lectures, nor have the additions rendered necessary any essential modification of views expressed when they were delivered. I am glad here to express my thanks to the Royal College of Physicians for appointing me to be Croonian Lecturer, and for allowing the funds of the Croonian Trust to be devoted to the expenses of the researches on which the lectures are based. Many of these researches have been carried out in conjunction with Mr. H. N. Webber, to whose help I owe very much. Others were made in conjunction with Mr. W. McDougall, and I am greatly indebted to him for allowing me to take part in the early trials of his new and most valuable method of studying mental fatigue. I have also to thank Dr. W. E. Dixon for his help in preparing the mixtures in which the drugs of my experi¬ ments were taken, and Professor Langley for allowing me to reproduce some of the illustrations from the Journal of Physiology. W. H. R. RIVERS. St. John’s College, Cambridge, December, 1907.