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cramp after meals; "belched" a great deal, and was 

 constipated at times ; at other times, the bowels were 

 too loose. She suffered from many headaches, and soon 

 became very nervous with insomnia to aggravate mat- 

 ters. There was a marked bodily weakness, and the 

 patient tired very easily. 



I examined this woman first about a year ago, at 

 which time I found as follows : 



Much abdominal distention; inability to digest 

 food ; malnutrition very evident ; menstruation irregu- 

 lar, scanty and difficult; complete sexual frigidity. 

 (Discussing this matter with her, I learned that her 

 sexuality had been rather unusually strong, but that 

 shortly after recovering from the influenza it was for 

 a short while more pronounced than ever. "It seemed 

 that I could not keep that out of my mind," was her 

 statement.) Pelvic pains and cramping frequent; 

 uterus and ovaries tender; slight leucorrhea; blood- 

 pressure low; pulse fast and feeble; subnormal tem- 

 perature; feet more or less edematous. 



Believing this to be a case of beginning pellagra, I 

 began treatment by giving hypodermics of sodium caco- 

 dylate. After thirty days, there being no improvement 

 apparent, I discontinued the arsenic and began a stock 

 pluriglandular formula containing adrenal, thyroid 

 and spermin. After three weeks her general condition 

 was beginning to improve. By the end of the second 

 month, on this treatment, her temperature and blood- 

 pressure were normal. The gastric and intestinal 

 symptoms had subsided and she was being well-nour- 

 ished. At six months she had regained her normal 

 health. 



Another case ; Mrs. J. M. H. She was in the second 

 month of her third pregnancy ; was vomiting almost in- 

 cessantly, and, of course, was very nervous. I began 

 treatment by giving Ext. Corpora Lutea subcutaneous- 

 ly, and such antiemetic drugs as are usually given in 

 those cases. After two weeks there was no improve- 

 ment. I then discontinued everything and began the 

 same pluriglandular treatment, with the result that at 

 the end of the third week the vomiting had stopped and 

 did not return during the pregnancy. This shows that 

 hers was, also, a pluriglandular disturbance. 



