Experimental Researches on the Pituitary Body Diabetes Insipidus, Glycosuria and Those Dystrophies Considered as Hypophyseal in Origin*

In recent years, notably before the War, we have carried out a series of researches on the pituitary body. These researches, undertaken without any preconceived idea, have furnished some results which have for the most part been published in various journals. It is of these results that we wish now to offer a succinct review. We must consider in succession the relation of polyuria to the removal of the pituitary body, the relation of polyuria to the lesions of the base of the brain, the site of the lesions which lead to polyuria, the interrelation of polyuria and polydipsia and the question of the regulation of water retention in the body.