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problems regarding the ductless glands and their prod- 
ucts, but it has been my great privilege and pleasure 
to demonstrate, clinically, the results of the study and 
research of some of the master minds of today and of 
the last two decades, who are giving their time and 
powers to the investigation of the endocrine glands. 
I am glad to offer my testimony in their favor. 
The reason why I use organotherapy in my practice 
can be told in the five words BECAUSE I GET GOOD 
RESULTS. The story of “HOW” I came to use the 
endocrines more and more frequently, would take much 
longer, yet a few words about the “WHYS” and 
“WHERES” may be of value to others who have not 
made a thorough trial of these adjuvants, which many 
times are virtually specifics. Sometimes the “why” 
is hard to answer, but if I find that a remedy does the 
work, I do not refrain from its use merely because I 
cannot find an explanation for each step of its modus 
operandi. 
ADRENAL THERAPY IN DRUG ADDICTION 
In a case of morphine addiction that I had under 
treatment in 1908, I found an unusually low blood 
pressure. From later experience, I have found that is 
what we must expect in most of these addicts unless 
possibly there is a severe complicating nephritis. The 
systems of these patients always are in a state of 
greater or less intoxication on account of the dimin- 
ished elimination, and in all of these cases elimination 
is the prime key to successful treatment. In the case 
mentioned, in addition to catharsis and diuresis with 
the usual remedies that I had been in the habit of using 
before, I tried one of the preparations of adrenal gland 
that was on the market. It gave me such satisfactory 
results that I began using it in other chronic conditions 
having low blood pressure and in which elimination 
was needed, and there are comparatively few cases 
