Excerpt from The Sex-Complex: A Study of the Relationships of the Internal Secretions to the Female Characteristics and Functions in Health and Disease This small monograph is based on the subject matter of several previous communications - the Arris and Gale Lectures, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, England, in 1913; the paper with which a discussion was opened at the Royal Society of Medicine in the same year, and other contributions bearing on this subject, including, by the kind permission of the Editors and Messrs. Macmillan & Co., a small portion of the articles on 'The Disorders of Function' written for the New System of Gyn cology. In the Arris and Gale Lectures probably the first definite attempt was made to demonstrate that the reproductive functions are directed and controlled by all the organs of internal secretion acting in conjunction, rather than by the gonads alone, as formerly thought. Earlier investigators had adduced evidence, it is true, of a connexion between the genital organs and some of the distant hormonopoietic glands; but the observations made do not appear to have led to the conclusion that the association is not incidental, but, rather, that it indicates the existence of a definite genital system, in which probably all the internal secretions play a part. This correlation of the internal secretions in regard to the sex-functions - the 'sex complex', as we may call it - appears already to be accepted by all physiologists and clinicians, except, perhaps, those few who still deny the interrelationship of the internal secretions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."