The internal secretions and the principles of medicine . receding chapter—that the neural lobe is the seat ofthe sympathetic and other motor centers which have as theirpurpose to connect the test-organ with the nerve-center throughwhich its defensive functions (as regards the body at large) canbe carried out, namely, the adrenal center. These facts suggest and additional evidence will show. (1)that the anterior pituitary body is not a secretory organ, and(2) that its function, as previously emphasized, is to test thequality of the blood circulating through it and awaken, if needbe, a defensive
The internal secretions and the principles of medicine . receding chapter—that the neural lobe is the seat ofthe sympathetic and other motor centers which have as theirpurpose to connect the test-organ with the nerve-center throughwhich its defensive functions (as regards the body at large) canbe carried out, namely, the adrenal center. These facts suggest and additional evidence will show. (1)that the anterior pituitary body is not a secretory organ, and(2) that its function, as previously emphasized, is to test thequality of the blood circulating through it and awaken, if needbe, a defensive reaction throughout the body. Such being thecase, the supposed secretory elements of the anterior pituitarycannot be such. This is further suggested by the arrangementand structure of the epithelinm. If the organ were a gland, its secreting elements shouldbe arranged in regular rows as in other glands, but such isnot the case. As is well known, the anterior pituitary is madeup of convoluted tubes or alveoli. In these structures, the cells, I Fig. Fig. 2.
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