The spleen, the thyroid, the Suprarenal glands have taken on a new significance.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
They witnessed, not only the publication of Claude Bernard's "Lectures on Experimental Physiology," but also the appearance of a monograph by Thomas Addison, an English physician, entitled "On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the Suprarenal bodies."
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Then he talks about the "curious facts" he had "stumbled upon" and refers to an "ill-defined impression" that these Suprarenal bodies, in common with the spleen and other organs, "in some way or other minister to the elaboration of the blood."
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.