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The Organisation of the Human Body
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Other Endocrine Glands :
According to Biology, “certain other organs of the body, although not usually considered endocrine glands, do produce hormones. These include the small intestine, (which yield secretin, responsible for the flow of pancreatic juice.) and the hormone cholecystokinin, which stimulates the contraction of the gall bladder.''29
"The stomach, liver and kidney also are believed to have endocrine functions but the evidence for this is not yet conclusive."30
“The thymus, a fairly large gland, existing only during childhood, lies in the upper part of the chest, covering the lower end of the trachea."31
"The pineal glands, a small, round structure on the upper surface of the thalamus, between the two halves of the cerebral cortex, has long been suspected of endocrine activity, largely because it has no other known function.''32
29. Biology, p. 403 30. Ibid; 31. Ibid, p. 403 32. Ibid. ; see Jolley's chart on Anatomy, vide Brahmavidya Vol. XXXVIII, 9.75.
Dr. Mrs. Colette Caillat on the medical doctrines and anatomy in Tandula Veyaliya.
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