Excerpt from Glands in Health and Disease Monkey glands; clever men and stupid ones; glands as the cause of crime; the origin of races' the mentally unbalanced; many acute diseases; the bearded lady, the giant, the fat boy and the midget; - all these and more have been dealt with under the subject of glands of internal secretion (also called ductless or endocrine glands). As in any subject that fires the popular imagination, fact and fancy have been mixed, - several drops of fact have been largely diluted with many drops of fancy. The achievements, judged by rigid scientific standards, are no more than modest, but the possibilities are limitless. It is because of these vast possibilities that an imagination, not sufficiently tempered by self-criticism, is apt to enlarge a molehill into a mountain. 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.