INTRODUCTION 5 



characteristics and genital functions, except in regard to Factors 

 the production of ova. We must, in fact, look upon the feminity. 

 ovaries as part of a system, to which most, if not all, the 

 other ductless glands belong, and in which these other 

 organs in their relation to the reproductive functions 

 figure with as great importance as the ovaries themselves. 

 It must be remembered, too, that when we speak of the 

 genital functions of the ductless, or hormonopoietic, 

 glands, we refer not only to their influence on the in- 

 tegrity of the uterus — anatomical and physiological — 

 but also on the general metabolism, which is influenced 

 to subserve the necessities of the special functions, and 

 on the psychology of the individual. 



In the second part of our subject we shall confine our 

 attention to those pathological conditions which are 

 probably directly dependent on derangements of the 

 normal morphological and physiological processes con- 

 cerned in the sex-complex and considered in the first 

 part of this work. 



