In seeking for the fountain-head of diabetic sugar, it is found that the liver is the great glycogenic, or sugar-originating factory of the body. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
His studies on the glycogenic functions of the liver opened the way for the modern fruitful researches on the internal secretions of the various glands. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913