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SINCE the appearance of our communication in NATURE on a function of the adrenal cortex (Dec. 29, 1928, p. 998), a paper on the same subject has appeared in the Journal of Physiology (vol. 67, p. 343; 1929) by H. Florey, A. Szent-Györgyi, and M. E. Florey, in which they offer a ‘criticism’ of the statement that decerebrated adrenalectomised cats die in a short time from respiratory failure. These three investigators base their contradictions on two experiments, whereas our conclusions were drawn from more than one hundred experiments. The longer the interval that elapses after decerebration and before adrenalectomy the quicker the respiratory failure. But, in one of the experiments performed by these workers, adrenalectomy was performed before decerebration and therefore, so far as a repetition of our work is concerned, must be discounted altogether.
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VINCENT, S., THOMPSON, J. A Function of the Adrenal Cortex. Nature 124, 445 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124445a0
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