xv i CONTENTS 



PAGES 



- (4) Metabolism in acromegaly . 

 . (5) Morbid anatomy . 



(6) Pathogeny . 



(7) Course and event of the disease diagnosis, 



prognosis and treatment . . . .375 



(8) Other conditions involving pituitary hyper- 



function . 



J 3. Conditions involving hyposecretion of the pituitary . 378 

 Dystrophia adiposo-genitalis 

 Infantilism 

 Progeria 



Classification of " infantilisms " . 

 Achondroplasia 



Carbohydrate tolerance in pituitary disorder. 

 Diabetes insipidus 



O. The use of pituitary extracts in medicine, surgery, and 

 gynaecology . 



CHAPTER XVI 

 THE FUNCTION OF THE PINEAL BODY . 385 394 



Anatomy and development of the pineal body 

 Uistological structure of the pineal body 

 Physiological experiments upon the pineal body . 



1. Injection of extracts of the pineal body 



2. Direct stimulation of the pineal body . 



3. Attempts to destroy the pineal body by means of the 



iQO 



cautery ....... iyi 



4. Extirpation of the pineal body 



5. Effects of castration upon the pineal body . 



6. Feeding experiments .... 



Pathological anatomy and clinical pathology . . 392 



CHAPTER XVII 



/ THE INTERRELATIONS OF THE ORGANS OF INTERNAL SECRETION . 395 409 



Introductory 395 



A. Interrelationships involving the thyroid gland . . . 398 



Action of the thyroid upon the adrenal bodies . . . 398 



Relations between the thyroid and pituitary bodies . . 399 

 Relations between the thyroid and the reproductive organs 400 

 Action of the thyroid on the thymus . . . .401 

 Action of the thyroid on the pancreas . . . .401 

 H. I ' i-l lips involving the pituitary body . . . 402 



Action of the pituitary b<<!\ upon the thyroid . . . 402 



Action of tin- pituitary body upon the repnxlurt ive organs . 402 

 ii <>f th- pituitary body upon the adrenal bodies. . 404 

 Action of the pituitary body upon th. pan. Teas. . . 404 



