An introduction to the study of secretion / by Swale Vincent.

  • Vincent, Swale, 1868-1934.
Date:
1924
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Credit: An introduction to the study of secretion / by Swale Vincent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blood are destroyed or rendered innocuous while the blood containing them is passing through the parathyroid. In this case the toxic materials might pass into the cell and there become destroyed and some newly-formed harmless substance might be returned to the blood. This is presum- ably what happens to ammonia compounds in the liver. After a review of the chief facts in regard to secretion and “ internal secretion,” we cannot avoid the conclusion that the latter process is something of quite a different nature from the former. It may be that it will be possible to retain the term internal secretion ” in some cases, but that in the case of others some new classification of physiological pro- cesses will render this term unsuitable. It seems certain that the so-called “ ductless glands ” do not all function in the same manner, and that only in a few of them can we, even reservedly, speak of a process of “ secretion.”