CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 21 April 1904, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

■ THE SAD FATALITY AT THE HOSPITAL. (To the Editor.) Sir, —I trust that you will allow mc space in your much-read paper to correct a statement appearing in the full report of this sad fatality at the hospital in last evening's edition of the "Star." I am afraid that in trying to describe the peculiar chain of symptoms arising from the condition of the enlarged pituitary body, thyroid gland, and thymus gland, I have misled your reporter and those present. I have, so it seems, led them to believe that the pituitary body was our "third eye." This is, of course, entirely wrong. The "third eye" is the pineal-gland, also situate in the brain. In my explanatory evidence, describing the pituitary body, and saying that its functions were so far unknown, like the gland situated in our brains, a developmental structure, our "third eye" (the "third eye" of certain lizards, e.g., hatteria), I have made it appear as though the pituitary body was the "third eye." One does not like to misrepresent facts, and I have taken the earliest opportunity of correcting the statement. —I am, eta, GEO. DE CLIVE LOW. Remuera-road, City.