. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ghtcap,they have no other rela-tion to them. Theirwork is in no way re-lated to the work of thekidneys. The kidneys are thebody sewer or an impor-tant part of it. The workof the adrenal has to dowith the distribution ofthe blood to the differentparts of the body. Asthe adrenals are beingformed in the body ofthe unborn child they areplaced next to certainnerve cells that have todo with the size of theblood vessels. As develop-ment proceeds the bunchof adrenal tissue and thegroup of nerve cells growtogether to form theadrenal body. When in mature lifethe adrenal
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ghtcap,they have no other rela-tion to them. Theirwork is in no way re-lated to the work of thekidneys. The kidneys are thebody sewer or an impor-tant part of it. The workof the adrenal has to dowith the distribution ofthe blood to the differentparts of the body. Asthe adrenals are beingformed in the body ofthe unborn child they areplaced next to certainnerve cells that have todo with the size of theblood vessels. As develop-ment proceeds the bunchof adrenal tissue and thegroup of nerve cells growtogether to form theadrenal body. When in mature lifethe adrenal cells secrete,a part of the secretionacts on the next doornerve cells and a part ofit flows into the bloodstream and is carried tonerve cells elsewherethroughout the body. Each of the adrenalsis about an inch and aquarter by an inch andthree-quarters in size andweighs about a dram. Anatomically, the adrenals are not imposing. Theyare small and inconspicuous. Unlike the secretion of the kidneys the secrtion of the adrenals cannot. Fig. 198.—Adrenal Glands (or Suprarenals). Kidneys, Abdominal Aorta and Some of Its Branches. Ai, commoniliac artery; I, external iliac; H, internal iliac; SM, middlesacral; PHR, inferior phrenic arteries; LD, one of thelumbar arteries; C, the celiac; MES, the superior mesenteric; MEI, the inferior mesenteric; SR, the capsular; Rthe renal; SPI, the spermatic; HI, the internal hemor-rhoidal. THE ADRENAL BODIES 577 be drawn from the living body and made the subject of study. Owing to thedifficulty in studying the adrenal secretion it is only in recent years thatanything had been known of its effect on the human body. We are justbeginning to learn of the discomforts, disabilities and diseases which resultwhen the adrenals go wrong. At a meeting of the American Medical Association Dr. Williams ofWashington told the section on practice that he no longer recognized neuras-thenia as a disease; that it was a lazy, sloppy diagnosis and that there wasalways so
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