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5. These relations and connections, in their practical application, 

 juake it appear that complete lij^pophj-sectomy is impossible without 

 the attendant removal of the infundibular process, infundibulum and 

 sacculai' eminence of the tuber cinereum. In accounting for the syn- 

 drome which follows the complete hypophysectomy, critical analysis 

 cannot be too carefully made in differentiating" between the symptoms 

 due to removal of the glandular tissue on the one hand; the neural 

 elements on the other. Such an analysis is obviously wanting in 

 many of the reported accounts of experimental, complete hypophysec- 

 tomy and the conclusions drawn are hence open to criticism. 



