Secretory Mechanism of the Digestive Glands

The first edition of this book, which appeared in 1944, has been warmly received and extensively used by physiologists and clinical investigators whose principal field of interest is the secretory activities of the digestive glands. Until its appearance the standard reference work in this field had been Babkin's earlier cyclopedic work, "Die Äussere Sekretion der Verdauungsdrüsen" (Berlin, Julius Springer, 1928). Unlike this earlier German work Babkin has not claimed for the present volume completeness of coverage of the literature. Instead he has attempted to present systematically the products of the research of his own laboratories, using literature references to the work of others only to supply the necessary background. Despite this professed modest aim, the book is, in fact, a complete survey of the literature on the subjects of salivary, gastric and pancreatic secretion and is much depended on for this purpose because no other modern book covers these subjects