Among the various biological systems regulating the living organism, the endocrine glands have been called upon, more often than others, to provide explanations for various aspects of behavior. The concept that behavior could be influenced by substances endogenous to various tissues and organs, reaches back to primitive times. Long before the beginning of the scientific era, primitive people attempted to give themselves more courage or whatever qualities they felt desirable, or even to cure specific illnesses, by consuming the appropriate parts of the beasts they killed. The "medicine man" bad a whole armamentarium of extracts or powders of various organs which were used to cure the failings of the analogous parts in his patients. Description of the use of dried or powdered testes to restore vigor and sexual potency can be found in early writings. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118642 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Payne, Ronald Clifford. |
| Contributors | Grad, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Investigative Medicine.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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