The glands of life : a contribution to the study of organotherapy . ife Case No. 3. August 28, 1912. Age 76, occupationlawyer; married 45 years; three children. Family his-tory negative. Previous history: Always of delicatehealth; had nervous prostration twenty-five years ago,and has been more or less nervous ever since. For thelast ten years has been neurasthenic; has vertigo, cardiacpalpitation upon slight exertion; has never had any seri-ous disease. Easily depressed and has spells of for twenty-five years. Examination: Thin,rather poorly developed man with prominent veins
The glands of life : a contribution to the study of organotherapy . ife Case No. 3. August 28, 1912. Age 76, occupationlawyer; married 45 years; three children. Family his-tory negative. Previous history: Always of delicatehealth; had nervous prostration twenty-five years ago,and has been more or less nervous ever since. For thelast ten years has been neurasthenic; has vertigo, cardiacpalpitation upon slight exertion; has never had any seri-ous disease. Easily depressed and has spells of for twenty-five years. Examination: Thin,rather poorly developed man with prominent veins; sal-low and sunken cheeks, small bones; rather fine and deli-cate frame and evidence of arterio-sclerosis. Blood pres-sure 100 Physical examination negative. Treat-ment: Injections 15 m. of polyglandular solution dailyfor one week, then three times weekly for four distinct increase in strength and sense of buoy-ancy and well-being after the first three injections. Sex-ual power shows signs of awakening and power of endur-ance much Photograph of author taken in 1910. Note careworn and aged appearance of face. CHAPTER XIX. Influence of Internal Secretion on MentalProcesses. In the explanation of many mental conditions we areassisted very little by a study of the anatomy of the brain,but as our researches with the glands of internal secre-tion proceed, we are able to explain quite a large numberof psychoses and deviations from the normal mentality,by the influence that the internal secretions have upon thedevelopment, growth and stabiHty of the brain and relation between the glands of internal secretion andmental conditions is twofold. It may be either the causeor effect. In considering the influence of the internal secretionon mental processes it is again necessary to consider twogroups of symptom complexes, depending upon diamet-rically opposite states of function of the glands, namely,hypersecretion or overactivity and hyposecretion or
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