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ADRENAL HYPOFUNCTION IN EVERY-DAY 
PRACTICE 
By D. C. RAGLAND, M.D., Los Angeles, Calif. 
Some years ago, when I first began to read about the 
ductless glands and their troubles, I was very forcibly 
struck with the divers symptomatology of thyroid and 
adrenal hypofunction. Here we find disturbances in 
one or more of the following parts: Hair, head, eyes, 
nose, ears, mouth, teeth, tonsils, respiratory system, 
cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, genito- 
urinary system, skin, muscles, bones and joints. 
After awhile the idea came to me that all these might 
be considered as tubes, or were made up of tubes or con- 
tained many tubes; and that each tube in the body had 
a dual nerve supply, i. e., from the sympathetic and the 
central nervous systems, or if you will, the vegetative 
and para-vegetative nervous systems. 
THE BALANCE OF NATURE 
This idea, taken with the proven fact that the sympa- 
thetic or vegetative nervous system is controlled by the 
ductless glandular system, especially the adrenal or 
chromaffin system, made the whole thing clear and 
easy. The embryological studies of C. R. Ide (1) show 
that adrenal secretion excites the dorsolumbar sympa- 
thetic, while the pharmacologic studies of Edmonds and 
Roth (2) show that adrenin produces its effects by an 
action on the myoneural junctions of the true sympa- 
thetic nerves. 
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