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The Endocrine Organs 



Corpuscles, concentric, of Hassal, 46. 



of Stannius in Teleostei, 58. 

 Corpus luteum or corpora lutea, spuria, 139. 



vera, 139. 

 cells of, 138. 

 development of, 138. 

 extracts of, 141. 

 influence of, on fixation of embryo, 148. 



on mammary growth, 146. 



on ovulation, 148. 



on secretion, 146. 



on uterus, 148. 

 metabolic effects caused by, 145. 

 Cretinism, association with thyroid, 32. 

 endemic, 30. 

 sporadic, 30. 



Diabetes (see also Glycosuria). 



insipidus, produced by pituitary lesions, 103. 



Langerhans' islets in, 127. 



pancreatic, 127. 

 Diphtheria, disappearance of adrenalin in, 57. 

 Drugs, internal secretions compared with, 5. 

 Ductless glands, 1. 

 Duodenum, autacoid of, 124. 



epithelium of, 3. 



extract of, 3, 124. 

 action on bile, 125. 

 on pancreas, 124. 

 on pituitary, 82, 125. 

 on succus entericus, 125. 



interaction with pancreas, 125. 



internal secretion of, 73. 

 Dwarfism, in connexion with pituitary, 113. 

 Dysparathyioidism, 24. 

 Dyspituitarism, 106. 

 Dystrophia adiposogenitalis, 110. 



Elasmobranch fishes, suprarenals of, 57, 58. 

 Endocrine glands, gioupings of, 7. 

 organs, definition, 2. 

 extracts of, 8. 



methods of determining functions of, 8. 

 Enzymes, compared with active principles of 



endocrine organs, 4. 

 Epinephrectomy, 56. 

 Epinephrin (see also Adrenalin), 58. 

 Epiphysis (sec Pineal gland). 

 Ergotoxine, effect on action of adrenalin, 64. 

 Extracts (sec Animal extracts, and under the 

 several organs). 



Fatigue, effect of suprarenal extract upon, 65. 

 Fecundity in fowls, effect of pituitary feeding 



upon, 105. 

 Feminism, due to pituitary insufficiency, 110. 

 Fish, pancreas of, 126. 

 pituitary of, extracts of, 99. 

 suprarenals of, 7, 57, 58. 

 Foetus, extract of, influence on growth of 

 mamma, 150. 

 influence on milk secretion, 150. 

 pancreas of, influence on mother, 128 

 parathyroids of, influence on mother, 23. 

 suprarenal of, 51. 



chemistry of cortex, 53. 

 structure of cortex, 51. 

 Formaldehyde, effect of, on adrenalin, 67. 



Frohlich's disease (see Dystrophia adiposo- 

 genitalis). 



Galactagogue action of blood-serum, 95. 

 of extract of corpus luteum, 144. 

 of mammary gland, 148. 

 of pineal, 120. 

 of pituitary, 90. 

 Gastric secretion, 125. 

 Gastrine, 125. 



Generative glands or organs, female, internal 

 secretions of, 137. (See also Ovary, 

 Corpus luteum, etc.) 

 male, internal secretions of, 132. (See also 



Testicle.) 

 relations with pineal, 121. 

 with pituitary, 110, 112, 115. 

 with suprarenal cortex, 53. 

 with thyroid, 37, 41. 

 Gigantism, pituitary, 108. 

 relation to acromegaly, 108. 



to defective sexual development, 108. 

 Glands, ductless, I. 



endocrine or internally secreting, 1. (See 



also Endocrine glands. ) 

 externally secretine, 2. 

 generative (see Generative glands). 

 Glycaemia (see Hyperglycemia). 

 Glycolysis (and glycolytic ferment) in relation 



to internal secretion of pancreas, 129. 

 Glycosuria, caused by adrenalin, 68, 70, 72, 130. 

 by injury of pituitary, 103, 104. 

 by mammary gland extract, 150. 

 by removal of pancreas, 72, 127, 128, 129. 

 in acromegaly, 108, 109. 

 alimentary, affected by exophthalmic goitre, 

 37. 

 affected by hypopituitarism, 111. 

 by pituitary extracts, 96. 

 by pituitary removal, 102. 

 by thyroid atrophy, 36. 

 by thyroidectomy, 32. 

 by thyroid extracts, 36. 

 Goitre, 33. 

 endemic, remedial effect of thyroid feeding, 32. 

 structure of thyroid in, 33. 

 symptoms, 33. 

 exophthalmic, 36. 



adrenalin in blood in, 41, 43. 

 condition of blood in, 38. 



of thymus in, 37. 

 hypersecretion in, 37. 

 metabolism in, 37. 

 structure of thyroid in, 37. 

 symptoms of, 37. 

 Grafting of internally secreting organs, 4. 

 ovary, 139. 

 pancreas, 127, 128. 

 parathyroid, 23. 

 pituitary, 104. 

 suprarenal, 67. 

 testicle, 135. 

 thyroid, 32. 

 Graves' disease (see Goitre, exophthalmic). 



Hair {see also Trichosis). 

 in parathyroidectomy, 22. 

 in thyroid extirpation and atrophy, 29. 



