Internal Secretions In Prac Me

Author : Henry R. Harrower
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332044290
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Practical Organotherapy written by Henry R. Harrower and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Organotherapy: The Internal Secretions in General Practice General Considerations. The status of the hormones, or the active principles obtained from certain glands Of inter nal secretion secured from animals, and their use as reme dial agents, has arrived at a place which reaches well beyond the laboratory Of the physiologist. These active principles are undoubtedly specific substances, and some of them already have been isolated while others are Obviously pres ent although they have not yet been chemically separated. These substances have been given the convenient generic name hormone from the Greek, I arouse, or set in motion, and are now known to constitute a series of im portant chemical messengers by means of which the func tions of the body are correlated. 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.