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need them and discontinued. All this time the nervous 
symptoms were present and she was told that all 
women went through it, but that violet ray exposures 
would help. At this time she wrote to the author and 
was put on a combined extract as above described. In 
two months the nervous symptoms had disappeared and 
have not returned for one year. Treatment was per- 
sisted in for four months. 
Case 2. Mrs. E. L., age 42, has had nine normal 
children and no miscarriages, and always felt well until 
a short time before presenting herself for examination 
(November, 1918). Past history negative. 
Present History: Had missed menstruation several 
times in the past year and the last few times “flooded 
terribly’ when menstruation came; has not felt well 
and been nervous and weak, especially of late; has lost 
the interest in home she used to have; blood-pressure 
S. 180, D. 92. Adnexa were normal and there were no 
signs of fibroids or malignancy. 
“This patient was given corpus luteum for two 
months and as a result she felt a good deal better, and 
she had begun to think her troubles were over when 
she had another attack of menorrhagia. This was se- 
vere. As they lived 25 miles away the husband came 
alone as he did not wish to aggravate the hemorrhage. 
This time the combined extracts were given but were 
continued only 33 days, as she felt so much better. 
There was no report until June, 1920, when the hus- 
band again reported a ‘slight show’ and for the last 
month some nervous symptoms. Again the same com- 
bination was given with prompt clearing up of all 
the symptoms until the last report, a week ago, at 
which time the same treatment was advised for an- 
other month.” 
These few case histories are but a meagre offering 
to the clinical side of the results of study of the close 
relationship of the internal secretions. The cases are 
picked at random and offer additional evidence of the 
importance of the endocrine balance in clinical prac- 
tice. 
Man is not a well or normal being when his endocrine 
organs are not properly balanced, and his feeling of 
