THE BASIC PHYSIOLOGIC REGULATORS 11 



action is apparent: gastric, intestinal and renal de- 

 rangement, giving indigestion, malnutrition and faulty 

 renal elimination all of which lowers the vitality and 

 bodily power of resistance to infection, which usually 

 follows. 



Now, to complete the picture of endocrine disorder, 

 let us consider the gonads. The gonads either make 

 or mar reproductive capacity and the sexual life of the 

 individual. On them depends not only the propagation 

 of humanity but that greatest of all the propensities, 

 sexual instinct, upon which rests that greatest, strong- 

 est and most ennobling of all the emotions love that 

 binds together families, communities and races, and 

 is the foundation of modern society and civilization. 



Anatomically, the gonads are not ductless glands; 

 but, in addition to their reproductive usefulness, it is 

 now an unquestioned fact that they manufacture an 

 internal secretion, which is correlated with the 

 hormones of the true ductless glands in maintaining 

 the physio-chemical balance of the body. 



When we think of sexual disorders it is but natural 

 that we think of the sexual organs. However, in a 

 majority of such cases, the primary, underlying cause 

 really is with the other ductless glands. Indeed this 

 seems to be true of practically all cases except tubercu- 

 losis or specific infection. 



Too often we have seen the healthy, robust, energetic 

 and kind husband and father become a sickly, miser- 

 able, cruel and worthless man. And oftener, we have 

 seen the young, healthy, tenderly-loving wife and 

 mother develop into a sickly woman, displeased and 

 disgusted with husband, home, family and life in 

 general. Such conditions are the instigating cause of 

 many separations and divorces. 



It would be a waste of time and effort to give in 

 detail all the symptoms of such cases loss of appetite; 

 indigestion; nausea; sexual frigidity; irregular, diffi- 



