I had previously reviewed in the literature concerning the adrenal cortical hormones during the Great War and I had emphasized there that the alarm reaction after Prof.
Hans Selye, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, was very interesting.
Since over ten years
H. Selye has been studying systematically with his coworkers about the physiology of adrenal cortex and his communications on that problem during this period has amounted to over 50, which led him recently to the conclusive idea, that is “general adaptation syndrome (hypophysis-adrenal cortex system) and diseases of adaptation.”
After him, as systemic reactions of the body which ensue upon exposure to various kinds of stresses, were observed complicated biochemical changes of the body fluids as well as histologic and morphologic changes in the adrenal cortex. consequently there appears a special syndrome such as _??_ nodes of cardiovascular system and transsudation to serous spaces, which may,_??_ arterioscrelosis or nephroscrelosis etc.
We have been reinvestigating about his work, which is the interesting problem in thd field of endocrinology and we have confirmed almost the same results as him till now.
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