Adrenal Glands

Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

"Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder."

Ivan Pavlov Physiologist

"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."

Ivan Pavlov Physiologist

"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."