Modern Methods in the History of Medicine

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Ira Vaughan Hiscock

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Otutstaniding among the manly fine clhapters is that by Henderson et al. entitle(l "The Adrenal Cortex and OsmoreguLlation in Teleosts." This clhapter does not intro(dtuce new concepts; it stummarizes the relevant (lata on a(lreiocortical hormones in teleosts and(the effects of these steroid lhormones on composition and distribution of body fluiids, renal fuinction, branchial and gastrointestinal function , an(l the vasctular system. The chapter by WAilliam Etkin on the endocrine meclhanism of alphil)bian metamorphosis is superb. Dr. Etkin emplhasizes tllat the adaptation of the aniimal (letermines whiclh hormonies are pressed into service and it is tisstue responsiveness, not endocrine messengers, which clhanges in evo-luttion. "EEnvironimenital Stimtuli and(the Mammary Gland" by Tindal and Knaggs, is an exqutisite analysis of the suckling reflex. They review the neural background operative in the stuckling stimtulus andl the ascendlinig pathways for

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