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of the operation, and seemed little affected the next day, when they 

 ate meat, and were able to get out of their beds and walk about. 



Of the general symptoms following operations on the pituitary, 

 polyuria and glycosuria are probably not infrequent — except after 

 immediately lethal procedures, when there may be anuria — but as these 



Fig. 12. — Author's chisel-hook for cutting through the stalk of the pituitary. (Photograph x h-) 



phenomena may follow injury or stimulation of any part of the pituitary, 

 I shall not discuss them at any length. 



With respect to the cachexia said by Gushing to be specific in con- 

 nexion with certain pituitary lesions, I have been unable to verify his 



Fio. 13. — Watson -Cheyne's dissector. (Photograph x ^.) 



conclusions, and am of the opinion that the supposed typical attitude 

 attributed to the so-called "cachexia hypophyseopriva " (cf. fig. 46) is 

 merely an attitude of weakness which is alwaj'S seen in dogs in an 

 advanced stage of emaciation and debility from any cause whatsoever. 



I shall discuss later the curious somnolence which may overtake the 

 animals after some of these operations. 



Effects of the Operations. 

 Control Experiments. 



These were two in number, and in both cases the bitches were submitted 

 to the same procedures as those adopted in the other experiments, even to 



