Hence the need for a physiological medicine, 'observing life, not abstract life, but the life of the organs, and in the organs, in relation with all the agents that may exert influence over them';'s pathological anatomy, conceived as a mere examination of lifeless bodies, is its own limit, while ever 'the role and sympathies of all the organs are far from being perfectly known'.;`' In order to detect this primary, fundamental, functional dis order, the gaze must be able to detach itself from the lesional site, for it is not given at the outset,