1 - Usul al-Kafi. Part 1 page 78 (abridged)... .

2 - The Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe, ed. J.C. Monsma, New York, 1958.

3 - The thymus gland produces lymphocytes, and its fundamental use is in the making of antibodies, which defend and protect the body against viruses and foreign protein. Antibodies.

4 - The pineal gland acts by secreting a hormone called glomerulotrophin, which circulates in the blood and causes another hormone called aldosterone to be secreted from the surface of the adrenal gland. This latter controls the concentration of sodium and potassium in the blood, which is of importance because an imbalance in these concentrations and the stopping of the secretion of aldosterone results in death in less than one week.