IDEAS CONCERNING THE ENDOCRINES Pad gh 
That these hormones regulate metabolism is now a 
logical deduction. They regulate and balance the cir- 
culation, and no digestive organ can provide nutrition 
for assimilaton unless its proper blood supply is in- 
sured. This being true, when dyshormonism occurs, 
the other dependent systems (vasomotor, muscular, 
nervous) suffer, and the tissue wastes remain improp- 
erly replenished, secretion and excretion lose their in- 
terdependent balance, and the whole body suffers be- 
cause of it. 
If a professional man possesses a well-balanced poise 
he is the owner of an admirable personality, and the 
more able to care for responsibilities. How much poise 
can any man or woman have whose systems are not 
in accord? Where dyshormonism is dominant, both 
body and mind must suffer. 
As a parting reiteration, I would emphasize the 
symptoms which clinically portray this lack of sys- 
temic poise which governs the body and the mind, viz., 
hypotension, hypodynamia, and hyponervosa—or hypo- 
asthenia—which is the sum total of all. I would also 
make a final plea for the already named synergistic 
supportive treatment, for patience, and for persistence 
or the necessary time which these potent agencies must 
have in order to do their work. 
My parting declaration is that the early restoration 
of this deranged hormone balance insures to the pa- 
tient a greater resistance against tuberculosis, and 
we know how prone it is to follow pneumonia and 
influenza. 
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Harrower (H. R.): “Practical Organotherapy,” The 
Harrower Laboratory (Glendale, Calif.), 1920, pp. 
io, 11S. 190. 
Kendall (E. C.): “The Thyroid Hormone and Its 
Relation to Other Ductless Glands,” Endocrinology 
(Los Angeles), 1918, ii, 81. 
