Studies on the thyroid gland of cattle : thesis submitted / by no. 391 [M.G. Hollard] for the Animal Husbandry section of the M. Agr. Sc. examination

Abstract

No abstract. The following is taken from the introduction: "Ttre health and productlon of the dalry cow 1s depend.ent Opo-n--h-E_eftfcffi -tunebi€nln g o f many 1 n temaL a ted phy si o1 o gl cal processes. For many years conslderable attention has been pald to digestlon, absorptlon of nutrlents, eirculatlon of the blood, utillsatlon of netabollc products, md excretion, It ls only in recent years, however, that the irnportance of the endocrlne system has been appreciated, and there still- renalns a large amount of fundanental researcb to be carried out before a eornplete understanding of the role of hornones wllL be obtalned.,"