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any sort (Dandy**) although McCord" reports increased growth and early sexual 

 maturity in animals fed pineal substance.** 



The Carotid Gland is more directly related to the adrenal medulla, in that it 

 contains chromaffin tissue. It should, presumably, contain a pressor principle, as 

 Moulon found, but Gomez*^ obtained only lowerinp; of blood pressure from extracts 

 of this gland, and bilateral removal causes no characteristic effects.** 



*» Jour Exp. Med., 1915 (22), 237. 

 *' Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1914 (63), 232 and 517. 



** Concerning the composition of the pineal gland see Fenger, Jour. Amer. Med. 

 Assoc. 1916 (67), 1836. 



*' Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., July, 1908. 



2* Massaglia. Frankf. Zeit. Path., 1916 (18). 333. 



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