I CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



"PAGES 



THE INTERNAL SECRETION OF THE LIVER .... 38 39 



Glycogenic function of the liver ...... 38 



Negative internal secretion . . . . . . .38 



Toxicity of liver extracts ..... ;{<) 



CHAPTER VI 



TIIK IXTKKXAL SECRETION OF THE PANCREAS .... 40 51 



Extirpation of the pancreas 40 



The islets of Langerhans ..... 41 



A and T* cells of islets ..... 47 



Glycosuria ....... 48 



Diabetes mellitus ...... 48 



Polyglandular theories .49 



Acidosis ........ - )<( 



Medicinal use of pancreatic extracts. . -,1 



CHAPTER VII 



THK INTERNAL SECRETION OF THE KIDNEY . . 52 56 



Effects of kidney extracts 52 



Extirpation of kidneys ..... 53 



Uraemia and Cheyne-Stokes respiration . . 53 



Treatment of nephritis with kidney extracts . r,r, 



(Edema in nephritis ..... 55 



Influence of the kidney on metabolism . 56 



Therapeutic uses of kidney extracts . . ^ 



CHAPTER VIII 



THE INTERNAL SECRETION OF THE INTESTINAL Mucous MEMBRANE 



AND THE NORMAL MECHANISM OF THE SECRETION OF THE 



PANCREATIC JUICE 5764 



State of knowledge in 1889 . . r )7 



Theory of nervous action ... 58 



Chemical mechanism 



Secretion . 



Excitants of the pancreatic juice 



Secretion in disease. 



CHAPTER IX 



8ECR J7 ION OP GASTRI Mucous MEMBRANE AND 

 NORMAL MECHANISM OF THE SECRETION OF THE GASTBIC 



. . ir,-66 



Nervous influences . 



^tricsecretin" or "Gastric Hormone" .' ' ' 



-cU of gastric mucous membrane in 'treated nf di 



66 

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