MAN AND HIS BRAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19407, 6 November 1934, Page 10

MAN AND HIS BRAIN.

ANATOMIST’S VIEWS. ‘‘Man is heading post haste for extinction; his brain’is hilling him,” says Dr. A. Watson, of Adelaide, distinguished professor of anatomy, formerly of Adelaide University, and at one time 'dean of anatomy at Charing Cross Medical School, London.

'Professor Watson is a well-known world traveller and scientist. lie served in the Boer War and in the Great War, and in 1920 retired with the title of emeritus professor. “1 do not mean that it is the size of man's lb-rain that is the trouble,” lie said recently in Brisbane, “because an aboriginal mi an may have a bigger brain than a white man. It is the quality and the use that is made of it 1 1 1 nI will cause the extinction of the race. 'The sabre-tooth tiger developed tusk-like teeth that grew to an enormous size, and the Irish elk developed antlers that became too heavy for it to -support. dust as these things caused the extinction of these animals, so will man's brain cause the cxlinction of man! .You have only to let the mind dwell on recent inventions to realise that we arc travelling fast along the road to extinction. We cannot -continue at the rate ■we arc going.” Discussing notable developments in medical science in the last generation. Dr Watson said that the greatest of these was undoubtedly in the treatment of ductless glands. Here, lie said, was the Held for Iherapeulics of Iho near future. Dr Voronol'f had performed a great service to mankind in his discoveries*