Note: Abstract missing from original / It is not certain to whom credit is due for the first description of the Adrenal glands. In the copper plates of human anatomy completed by Eustachius in 1552, the adrenals are shown. These plates were preserved in the Vatican library until published by Lancisi, physician to Pope Clement XI, in 1714 (1). In 1629, however, Jean Riolan (2) described and named the "Supra-renal capsules". One hundred years later the Academic des Sciences of Bordeaux offered a prize for the best essay on "Quel est l’usage des glandes surrenales", but apparently no plausible theory was forthcoming, as the adjudicator recommended that the prize should not be awarded.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.122853 |
| Date | January 1950 |
| Creators | McIntosh, Hamish W. |
| Contributors | Cleghorn, R. (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 Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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