Discuss the anatomy and physiology of the sex glands, the ovaries and the testes. View diagrams of their location within the body cavities and the main hormones produced by both. Discuss the secondary sex characteristics controlled by each set of hormones.

Read, define and analyze he physiology of insulin and its production. Discuss type 1 and type 2 diabetes, their symptoms and history. View video dealing with the discovery of insulin by Banting, Best et al. Examine the problems which occurred during the development, and the personality clashes.

Examine and discuss a patients symptoms as presented to her doctor. From the symptoms, determine what possible endocrine disorder the patient has, and what further testing could be done to verify the diagnosis. Discuss the disease of Diabetes, its history, the endocrine gland involved, and the life expectancy prioer to the 1930's. In the lab perform a chemical test which is used to show the presence of excess glucose in the urine. Analyze and discuss the results of the test.

View the anatomy of the thyroid gland using images and photos.
Discuss the hormone produced, the general physiology of the hormone and both hypo and hyper secretions disorders. Show pictures which aid in the anatomical and physiological understanding of this gland

Discuss why the secretions of the anterior pituitary are referred to as trophic hormones. List the major glands affected by these hormones. Concentrate on the thyroid gland and its hormone. Discuss how iodine is a required element for the production of the thyroid hormone, and in areas where iodine is limited in food, hypothyroidism is prevalent among children , leading to Cretinism.

Read and discuss article relating growth hormone to pituitary dwarfism and gigantism. Outline and discuss the effect of the anterior pituitary gland secretions on metabolism and growth through its affects on the thyroid gland and adrenal glands

Continue with the action of the posterior pituitary hormones on the human organism. Discuss the action of oxytocin in stimulating the uterus contractions, and the need for these contractions. Expand the physiology of oxytocin to the action of milk letdown by the mammary glands. Discuss the importance of this action, and the stimulus for it.
Examine the anterior pituitary gland diagram, and note the varied actions controlled by this gland. Discuss growth and the effects of growth hormone on the bones and muscles. Examine photographs of hypopituitary growth hormone effects on children, as well as hypersecretion. Discuss pituitary dwarfism and gigantism.

Posterior pituitary anatomy and physiology. Discussion of anti diuretic hormones function on the kidneys. Elicit how diuresis will affect the blood volume, thirst, and dizziness.

Discuss the anatomy and physiology of the pituitary gland. Elicit the activity of the posterior lobe through clinical examples. Define and discuss diuresis, diuretic ,and antidiuretic hormones.
Discuss how alcohol suppresses the antidiuretic hormone, leading to pojyurea, thirst, dizziness. Elicit from the diagram of the location of the gland, how the brain plays an important part in the action of the posterior gland.

Examine the location and anatomy of the pituitary gland. Discuss the impact of the brain on the posterior lobe. Discuss diuresis, the antidiuretic hormone, and the affect alcohol has on the hormone, leading to thirst, dehydration and dizziness.