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cramp after meals; “belched” a great deal, and was 
constipated at times; at other times, the bowels were 
too loose. She suffered from many headaches, and soon 
became very nervous with insomnia to aggravate mat- 
ters. There was a marked bodily weakness, and the 
patient tired very easily. 
I examined this woman first about a year ago, at 
which time I found as follows: 
Much abdominal distention; inability to digest 
food; malnutrition very evident; menstruation irregu- 
lar, scanty and difficult; complete sexual frigidity. 
(Discussing this matter with her, I learned that her 
sexuality had been rather unusually strong, but that 
shortly after recovering from the influenza it was for 
a short while more pronounced than ever. “It seemed 
that I could not keep that out of my mind,” was her 
statement.) Pelvic pains and cramping frequent; 
uterus and ovaries tender; slight leucorrhea; blood- 
pressure low; pulse fast and feeble; subnormal tem- 
perature; feet more or less edematous. 
Believing this to be a case of beginning pellagra, I 
began treatment by giving hypodermics of sodium caco- 
dylate. After thirty days, there being no improvement 
apparent, I discontinued the arsenic and began a stock 
pluriglandular formula containing adrenal, thyroid 
and syermin. After three weeks her general condition 
was beginning to improve. By the end of the second 
month, on this treatment, her temperature and blood- 
pressure were normal. The gastric and intestinal 
symptoms had subsided and she was being well-nour- 
ished. At six months she had regained her normal 
health. 
Another case; Mrs. J. M. H. She was in the second 
month of her third pregnancy; was vomiting almost in- 
cessantly, and, of course, was very nervous. I began 
treatment by giving Ext. Corpora Lutea subcutaneous- 
ly, and such antiemetic drugs as are usually given in 
those cases. After two weeks there was no improve- 
ment. I then discontinued everything and began the 
same pluriglandular treatment, with the result that at 
the end of the third week the vomiting had stopped and 
did not return during the pregnancy. This shows that 
hers was, also, a pluriglandular disturbance. 
