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THE DUCTLESS GLANDS 



(8) Other Conditions involving Pituitary Hyper function 



There are reasons for thinking that many forms of gigantism 

 are due to hyperfunction of the pituitary, and probably to 

 hyperf unction of the anterior lobe. In these cases there is 

 rarely, if ever, a definite adenoma of the gland. But it is 



FIGS. 101 & 102. Marked adiposity. 124 Ib. increase in 14 months. (From 



dishing.) 



possible that the structure might manufacture certain sub- 

 stances in excess of the normal, without overgrowth of the 

 gland as a whole, but simply by multiplication of certain cells. 



3. Conditions involving Hyposecretion of the Pituitary 

 Frohlich was the first to point out that in cases of pituitary 



