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...Bert Cunningham Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM BERT CUNNINGHAM WHEN Brown-Sequard exhibited himself as a reju­ venated man at the Paris Academy in 1889, he fur­ nished a stimulus for much yellow journalism concerning the fascinating subject of glands...

... the heart and the glands is a sample of normal unthinking discourse, while Hyatt Waggoner, finding a crucial ambiguity about the central affirmation, says he wonders if the rhetoric is tortured because the conviction is not clear. David L. Williams refers to the concepts of the address as memorable...

... and placed in the apparatus. The closely surrounding tissues go in along with the organ the nearby tissues, veins, arteries, and lymph glands. The main arteries are then connected with tubes in the apparatus and proper Can Science Produce Lije? II nutrition is pumped through in liquid form. Thus separate...

... be considered eligible for admission unless it can be traced without flaw on both sire s and dam s side of its pedigree to horses and mares themselves already accepted in the earlier volumes of this book. After fully developing the evolution of the thoroughbred in his native En­ gland, Willett devotes a major...

..., particularly Alden Vaughan s New En­ gland Frontier. Although Jennings may hope that his book constitutes the last word, I suspect that it is but the opening round in a new controversy over the whole subject. His questioning of others moral judgments and interpretation of evidence is presented with admirable...

... in an interesting and pleasing manner, and any one wishing a general, but reliable view of the field of endocrinology would do well to read this volume. The more important ductless glands (adrenals, thyroid, parathy­ roids, pituitary, sex glands, placenta, and thymus) are described and their relations to bodily...

... society. Twentyfive scholars participated as faculty in this seminar. They included five Duke profes­ sors, two professors from UNC-Chapel Hill, and seven from other U. S. institutions. The other participants were from Canada, En­ gland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, and Sweden. Each faculty member...

..., unacknowledged selves. In what does my baseness or blindness or folly consist as a person and a citizen? Do I not know? Or do I deny it? Perhaps I shall find it in that machine-politician or that sheep-gland statesman or this or that spurious share-the-wealth reformer. As it is with one country so...

... the spirits move the little gland in the middle of the brain. But this does not enable us to distin- guish between the various passions: for that, we must investigate their origins and examine their first causes. They may sometimes be caused by an action of the soul when it sets itself...

... to descend from an ape. He it was who anatomized our minds, reduced us to our conditioned reflexes and our glands, and laid us on the couch to reveal that we desired our own mothers. And it is the scientist who begot, raised, and matured the Bomb; who sold it to the people; who accepted the money with one...

... and Politics in Eighteenth Century En­ gland: To the Fall of Walpole, is professor emeritus of history in Duke University. 1The Origins of Political Stability, England, 1675-1725. By J. H. Plumb. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1967. Pp. xviii, 206. $6.00. Plumb on the Origins of Political Stability...

... Imagine reading Polybius on the fall of empires during the middle of the seventeenth century. Between 1500 and 1650, the population of En­ gland more than doubled to over five million; the increase in marginal groups younger sons, sisters, and daughters among the upper and middle classes and displaced...

... or to embarrass himself by re­ pudiating them. Eamon De Valera, in a speech in Dublin, set the tone for Irish leaders in America: We want Ireland to be set-up as an Independent State with no closer bonds between us and En­ gland than there will be between it and America, or between it and Germany, or between...

... of glands and other ap­ parently degrading physical functions; (3) that love has been de­ stroyed for us as a value by being shown, in the laboratory, to be nothing but the result of certain chemical secretions; (4) that tragedy has become impossible, since man has had all his dignity and im­ portance...

... the fallen angels in order to insure a continuance of Hell since Hell is out of date. To effect a marriage of Hell s angels and human kind, Pulley is employed to reintroduce sex to the atrophied glands of the angels, and he does that through a great publicity campaign and a lascivious carnival. Finally...

... to time in the press on both sides of the water, especially in America during James s visit in 1904-5 and in En­ gland after he became a British citizen and received the Order of Merit from King George V. Edel makes good use of these news­ paper sources, but he sometimes fails to cite chapter and verse...

... figure among those who, in the first quarter of the century, aspired to reform Spain s archaic tax structure and inefficient treasury administration. Canga became acquainted with Classical economics long before his exile in En­ gland in the 1820 s, and his official memoranda and speeches on finance...

... throughout his childhood from tuberculosis of the glands of the neck (scrofula), for which he was touched by Queen Anne, with the result usual in this variety of priest­ ly therapeutics when divested of the all-important element of sug­ gestion. That he was thoroughly spoiled by his father, old Michael...

... for reasons as mysterious as ever, and he acknowledges with erudite humor that this fact keeps him an outsider: So I shall never be quite happy, with the happiness of these fellows who find their nectar of life, and its elixir, in the deep stirring of some seminal gland (p. 195). Yet 344 The South Atlantic...

... history, W. G. Grace (1848-1915), was a Gentleman who, from mid-Victorian to Edwardian times, led En­ gland s teams on tour to the colonies. Ironically, as recent historians have revealed, he was sometimes paid to take part in English tours of Australia, but only covertly, and, like his fellow Gentlemen...