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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ENGLE, Earl Theron (1896 – 1957)

1896 – 1957

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1927 CE

#1167

Experimental evidence regarding the rôle of the anterior pituitary in the development and regulation of the genital system.

SMITH, Philip Edward (1884 – 1970) ENGLE, Earl Theron (1896 – 1957)

Pituitary tissue implanted in the immature mouse was found by these writers to cause precocious sexual maturity. Thus they showed that the activity of the gonads is maintained by the anterior lobe of the pituitary.