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Placid Cats. Drs. Philip Bard and Vernon B. Mountcastle of Johns Hopkins told of experiments with half-brained cats. Some years ago they discovered that when its whole forebrain was removed, a cat became uncontrollably ferocious, reacting with outrage to the slightest provocation. Apparently the lower brain, the seat of anger, was dominating the cat in the absence of the forebrain...
...found to produce secretions of similar potency. Thus born was the modern science of endocrinology.* Since Brown-Séquard's original demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur in the pineal gland in the middle of the brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what...