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... of these ductless glands could be. Of course earlier workers had explanations, but none of them was scien­ tifically proved, and Schiff set out to discover their function. He removed the thyroids from a variety of animals, some of which died and some of which survived. The paper recording his results, when...

... ovaries, kidneys, thyroid glands, spleens, and hearts not only maintain them­ selves but actually grow. The organs grow far more rapidly, indeed, than in the body if they have access to certain nutritive solutions. In other words, their rate of growth depends altogether upon the kind of food they con­...

... 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...

... of man himself. Such abstraction reaches the dead end of the alley when the family doctor refers, not a patient, but a gallbladder, a thyroid, or a retinitis to a specialist. The disease is referred because it is simpler to abstract a specific disease than confront the medical problem of the entire...