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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 <p>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. <p>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. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita