CONTENTS XXI 



CHAPTER LXXXI PAGE 



FAT METABOLISM (CONT'D) 736 



Production of Fatty Acid out of Carbohydrate, 736; Method by which the 

 Fatty Acid is Broken Down, 737. 



CHAPTEE LXXXII 



CONTROL OF BODY TEMPERATURE AND FEVER 742 



Variations in Body Temperature, 742 ; Factors in Maintaining the Body Tem- 

 perature, 743; Control of Temperature, 747; Fever, 748; Causes of Fever, 

 748; Changes in the Body During Fever, 750; Heat-regulating Center, 752; 

 Significance of Fever in the Organism, 753. 



CHAPTER LXXXIII 



THE PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF VENTILATION 754 



Relationship Between Chemical Composition of the Air and the Well-being 

 of the Body, 754; Relationship Between the Physical Conditions of the Air 

 and the Well-being of the Body, 757; Relationship between the Conditions of 

 Ventilation and Susceptibility to Infections, 759; Methods for Determining 

 the Healthfulness of Air, 763. 



PART VIII 

 THE ENDOCRINE ORGANS, OR DUCTLESS GLANDS 



CHAPTER LXXXIV 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS, THE ADRENAL GLANDS 766 



Methods of Investigation, 767; Adrenal Gland, 768; Cortex, 768; Medulla, 

 770 ; Adrenalectomy, 771 ; Adrenal Disease in Man, 772 ; Suprarenal Extracts, 

 773; Physiological Action, 774. 



CHAPTER LXXXV 



Tin-: ADRENAL GLANDS, (CONT'D) 779 



Variations in Physiological Activity, 779; Assaying the Epmephriue Content 

 of the Gland, 779; Epinephrine Content of the Blood, 780; Autoinjection 

 Method, 784; Association of the Adrenal with Other Endocrine Organs, 788. 



CHAPTER LXXXVI 



THE THYROID AND PARATHYROID GLANDS 791 



Structural Relationships, 791; Thyroid Gland, 792; Condition of Gland, 792; 

 Experimental Thyroidectomy, 794; Disease of the Thyroid, 795; Relationship 

 with Other Endocrine Organs, 800; Parathyroids, 800; Experimental Para- 

 thyroidectomy, 800; Injury or Disease of the Parathyroids in Man, 801. 



CHAPTER LXXXVII 

 THE PITUITARY BODY . 806 



Structural Relationships, 806; Functions, 807; Clinical Manifestations of 

 Deranged Pituitary Function, 816; Relationship with Other Endocrine Or- 

 gans, 818. 



