ADAPTATIONS 



has been isolated, it is sold over the counter 

 like any other drug or medicine, because 

 it has many properties of much value to 

 the physician. It is also very powerful, 

 for only one eight-hundredth of a grain of 

 it will uncomfortably raise the pressure of 

 the blood in all the arteries of the body. 

 Now for our present purpose, the fact is 

 interesting to state that if the adrenals 

 are cut out, one cause for the rapid super- 

 vention of death is from paralysis of all 

 the vasomotor nerves. Those nerves can- 

 not act if there be no adrenalin in the 

 blood. 



Moreover, chronic disease of the ad- 

 renals causes a fatal affection called Ad- 

 dison's Disease, the patients finally dying 

 from pure weakness. A strange bronzing 

 of the skin in large patches also generally 

 accompanies this complaint, which points 

 to its connection with derangement of the 

 sympathetic. Three patients with Addi- 

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