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The Endocrine Organs 



Pancreas, islets of Langerhans, 3, 125, 126. 

 (See also Langerhans.) 

 relation to carbohydrate metabolism, 2, 127, 

 129. 

 Pancreatic duct, ligature of, 127. 

 juice, secretion of, excited by acid in duo- 

 denum, 125. 

 excited by secretine, 125. 

 Parahypophysis, 75. 

 Parathyrine, 27. 



Parathyroid or parathyroids, accessory, 12. 

 anatomy of, 16. 

 in animals, 12. 

 autacoids of, 24, 27. 

 blood-vessels of, 21. 

 colloid in, 20. 

 development of, 21. 

 in disease, 25. 

 external or lower, 11. 

 extirpation of, 22. 

 differences, 24. 

 effects of, 22. 

 on metabolism, 24. 

 on thyroid, 24. 

 tetany from, 23. 

 extracts of, 26. 

 grafting of, 23. 

 history of, 16. 

 internal or upper, 11. 

 position of, 11. 

 relation to pancreas, 130. 

 to pituitary, 28. 

 to thyroid, 20, 27. 

 to other endocrine organs, 28. 

 structure of, 17. 

 Parathyroidectomy, 22. 



influence on liver cells, 28. 

 Pigmentation, in Addison's disease, 49. 

 in hypopituitarism, 111. 

 after suprarenal removal, 50. 

 Pineal or pineal gland, anatomy of, 118. 

 extirpation of, 120. 

 extracts of, 120, 123. 



galactagogue action of, 120. 

 feeding with, 123. 



relation of, to generative organs, 121. 

 structure of, 119. 

 tumours of, 121. 

 Pineal eye, 118. 

 Pituitary body, 74. 



accessory glandules, 100. 

 anterior lobe of, 77. 



effect of deficiency of, 106, 110, 111. 



of increase of secretion of, 106. 



relation to acromegaly, 100, 109. 



autacoid or autacoids of, 84, 86, 96. 



compared with suprarenal, 84, 85, 88. 

 blood-vessels of, 77, 78, 83. 

 cells of, 78, 79, 80. 

 clinical evidence relating to, 106. 

 colloid in, 75, 80. 

 development of, 75. 

 feeding with, 96, 104. 



effect on egg production in hens, 105. 

 on fertility of eggs, 105. 

 on growth, 105. 

 grafting of, 104. 

 hyaline bodies in, 80. 



Pituitary body, injury of, 103. 

 intraglandular cleft of, 74. 

 iodine in, 116. 

 operations on, 113. 

 pars anterior seu glandularis, 77. 

 blood-vessels of, 78. 

 cells of, 78. 

 colloid vesicles in, 80. 

 pars intermedia of, 80. 

 action of extracts, 98. 

 cells of, 80. 

 colloid vesicles in, 80. 

 pars nervosa of, 83. 

 effect of thyroidectomy on, 83, 116. 

 extracts, action of, 98. 

 hyaline and granular substances in, 83. 

 passage into third ventricle, 81. 

 posterior lobe of, 77. 

 extracts of: — 

 administration of, in disease, 96. 

 effects of, on bladder, 87. 

 on blood pressure, 84. 



in birds, 87. 

 on heart, 84, 87. 



in birds, 84. 

 on intestine, 87. 

 on kidney, 88, 89. 

 on metabolism, 96. 

 on milk secretion, 90. 

 on plain muscle, 84. 

 on pupil, 87. 

 on stomach, 87. 

 on urine, 88. 

 on uterus, 87. 

 in pregnancy, 79. 



puncture of, effect in causing glycosuria, 104. 

 relation to acromegaly, 106. 



to Bernard's sugar puncture, 104. 

 to carbohydrate metabolism, 102, 117. 

 to dystrophia adiposogenitalis, 110. 

 to fat formation, 101, 102, 110, 112, 113. 

 to feminism, 110, 112. 

 to gigantism, 108. 

 to growth, 102. 

 to menstruation, 110, 115. 

 to pancreas, 117. 

 to parathyroid, 116. 

 to pregnancy, 101, 109, 115. 

 to respiration, 101. 

 to sexual organs, 101, 110, 115. 

 to suprarenals, 117. 

 to thyroid, 113, 115. 

 removal or extirpation of, complete, 100. 

 methods, 100. 

 partial, 102. 

 secretion of, into third ventricle, 81, 83, 115. 

 structure of, 74. 

 after thyroidectomy, 116. 

 tumours of, 106, 109, 110. 

 Pituitrin, 84. 



Polyuria, resulting from pituitary lesions, 103. 

 Post-branchial bodies, 16. 

 Pregnancy, affected by parathyroidectomy, 23. 

 cells, in pituitary, 79. 

 relation to corpus luteum, 148. 

 to exophthalmic goitre, 37. 

 to pituitary, 79, 101, 109, 115. 

 Progastrine, 125. 



