| The American neurophysiologist and neurologist together with Percival Bailey reported in 1921 that the pars nervosa of the pituitary gland was truly a lobe of atrophy and had no relationship to diabetes insipidus. They also concluded that pituitron cushing was pharmacologically an interesting extract. Bremer was an assistant to Harry William Cusling (1869-1939) and in an important experiment reported that a puncture wound of the hypothalamus of dogs would result in diabetes mellitus, obesity and genital atrophy. |  |