He'd already doctored himself with hemostatics and local anaesthetics but, from the hips down, he was dead as salt pork, and his visceral reflexes must have been reacting like a worm cut with a hoe.
"A Matter of Proportion"
Anne Walker
Adrenalin may be looked upon as the invention for the mobilization at a moment's notice, or as we say, after generations of use, by instinct, of all these visceral and blood advantages in the struggle of combat or flight.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Together with the other ductless glands, they decide the advance or halt, forward or retreat, tension or relaxation, charge and discharge, of the visceral-involuntary muscle-blood vessel combination which is at the core of life.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.