ANTERIOR PITUITARY GLAND 



to failing powers of resistance that we should 

 have done : we still cling to our old exoteric drugs 

 like digitalis, strophanthus, and strychnine, and to 

 a considerable extent find them valuable, but they 

 can often be replaced or aided by these natural eso- 

 teric drugs and without the unpleasant side-effects 

 that the others, especially digitalis, often cause. 



The use of pituitrin in obstetrics is so well 

 known that I need not enter into particulars. 



In acromegaly one would look for much help 

 from pituitary extracts, but so far it has only 

 been found efficacious in the relief of the severe 

 headache and lethargy that belong to this disease. 

 The more we learn of these intricate actions and 

 reactions, the greater will be our control, both of 

 functional abnormalities and of commencing 

 organic disease. 



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 Hitherto in England little clinical work has 

 been done with pitglandin, the active principle 

 of the anterior lobe, though, in its enormous 

 influence on growth and development, it is more 

 important than pituitrin. It is presumption, 

 perhaps, to say that any link in the wondrous 

 chain of animal vitality is more important than 



1 Much of this article appeared lately in the Practitioner, 

 from which I quote by the kind permission of the editor. 



