76 THE INTERNAL SECRETIONS—1920 
diseases by applying all indicated measures together, 
even as the Allies together overwhelmed the Kaiser’s 
resistance after the Yankees “‘got into the game.” This 
is not only rational, it is clearly imperative. 
Suppose that the automobile in which we have just 
visited these patients has been neglected. The water 
has gotten low in the radiator. As a result, the engine 
gets hot. The heat of the engine promotes combustion 
of oil. When the oil has reached the vanishing point, 
an engine bearing is burned out. Now comes a me- 
chanic who tries to cure by the single remedy. Says he, 
“A depleted supply of water in the radiator has caused 
all your trouble. Let’s fill the radiator and end your 
troubles.” The radiator is filled, but the machine will 
scarcely run because of lack of oil and a burned-out 
bearing. Anybody has only to listen to the poor ma- 
chine as it tries to limp along on three cylinders to 
know that the mechanic is wrong. ‘This will never 
do,” you exclaim, ‘‘We must deal with effects as well as 
causes. Let’s put in a new bearing, give her plenty of 
oil and water and then see how she works.” 
The point of my illustration is clear. The man who 
insists upon curing various endocrine disorders and the 
resulting ailments of the body with a single glandular 
extract is like the mechanic putting water in the radia- 
tor. He does not remedy the impairments that are 
present. 
When will we medical men cease to follow cunningly 
devised theories to which we must make all the facts 
conform? Why not follow the facts, let them lead us 
where they will? Here is a series of cases of sufficient 
variety to prove to any open-minded critic that what- 
ever formula was employed must have some merit. 
Our experience showed that we obtained results from 
the pluriglandular products that were not obtainable 
from other preparations used previously. Why not 
