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Excerpt from Internal Secretions, Considered in Their Physiological, Pathological and Clinical Aspects: The Internal Secretory Activity of Glands in Relation to the Pathological Anatomy of Sundry Morbid Conditions-Diabetes, Addison's Disease, Myxoedema, Cretinism, Graves' Disease and Acromegaly To remove an organ and study the effects of the operation is clearly an exercise in experimental pathology and only secondarily and indirectly a physiological investigation, while the greater the precision with which the course and symptoms of any morbid condi tion are studied, the more the study becomes a matter of science, a matter of pathology rather than of medicine. In other words, asked as a pathologist to enter into this discussion, I find that all other participants have trespassed into pathological territory. This is one of the penalties of sure advance in our common subject: the pathology of yesterday becomes the medicine of to-day, and I might add, the medicine Of to - day yields place to the surgery of to-morrow. But this being the case, so as not to reiterate, I am impelled to make my contribution to this discussion a resumé of the results Obtained in a branch of pathology which others are not likely to dwell upon. It is in many respects an unsatisfactory branch - a branch capable of testing rather than of originating any theory. I refer to morbid anatomy. I propose, therefore, during the next few minutes, to lay before you what may be gleaned from the post-mortem room bearing upon this subject of internal secretion. But first it is necessary to call your attention to the very narrow limits of the information to be gained from a study of the gross and fine anatomy of diseased organs in this connection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita