"Pituitary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... B. Robertson discovered that Tethelin (located in the pituitary body at the base of the brain) produces the growth of ...
— ABC's of Science • Charles Oliver
... be a great chemical laboratory. There is a tendency, moreover, to extend the sexual sphere so as to admit the influence of internal secretions from other glands. The thymus, the adrenals, the thyroid, the pituitary, even the kidneys: it is possible that internal secretions from all these glands may combine to fill in the complete picture of sexuality as we know it in men and women.[16] The subject is, however, so complex and at present ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... experiment he had made upon himself by the injection of testicular extract. This was the commencement of organotherapy. Since that time investigation of the more important organs of internal secretion—namely, the gonads, thyroid, thymus, suprarenals, pituitary, and pineal bodies—has been carried on both by clinical observation and experiment by a great number of physiologists with very striking results, and new hormones have been discovered in the walls of ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... the staircase, always in darkness, with no air except what filtered in through a few high, grated windows that opened upon a diminutive courtyard with filthy walls punctured by round ventilators. For a broad, roomy nose endowed with a keen pituitary membrane, it would have been a curious sport to discover and investigate the provenience and the species of all the vile odours comprising that fetid stench, which was an ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... found no bad action from ergot, either by the mouth or hypodermically in these eclamptic cases, it would seem inadvisable to use ergot, which may raise the blood pressure. He finds that pituitary extract "can cause ...
— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. |
