DISEASE OF THE PANCREAS.

The infrequency with which post-mortem examinations are made probably accounts for the apparent rarity of diseases of the pancreas. This organ belongs to the important system of secreting glands, and I feel that their relationship to the human economy is but imperfectly known. We know that there is a bond of some extent between these glands, through the sympathetic nervous system and the lymphatics, but is there not some bond existing which has control over the power whereby one gland assumes a function laid down by another? Does such a power exist in the human organism, or is the function, once destroyed, lost forever? Does the organism adjust itself to the loss of an organ through other organs, or does it live without this function being restored? There seems to be a close relationship between the pancreas and the central nervous system also, for microscopic examinations of the tissues of