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diseases by applying all indicated measures together, 

 even as the Allies together overwhelmed the Kaiser's 

 resistance after the Yankees "got into the game." This 

 is not only rational, it is clearly imperative. 



Suppose that the automobile in which we have just 

 visited these patients has been neglected. The water 

 has gotten low in the radiator. As a result, the engine 

 gets hot. The heat of the engine promotes combustion 

 of oil. When the oil has reached the vanishing point, 

 an engine bearing is burned out. Now comes a me- 

 chanic who tries to cure by the single remedy. Says he, 

 "A depleted supply of water in the radiator has caused 

 all your trouble. Let's fill the radiator and end your 

 troubles." The radiator is filled, but the machine will 

 scarcely run because of lack of oil and a burned-out 

 bearing. Anybody has only to listen to the poor ma- 

 chine as it tries to limp along on three cylinders to 

 know that the mechanic is wrong. "This will never 

 do," you exclaim, "We must deal with effects as well as 

 causes. Let's put in a new bearing, give her plenty of 

 oil and water and then see how she works." 



The point of my illustration is clear. The man who 

 insists upon curing various endocrine disorders and the 

 resulting ailments of the body with a single glandular 

 extract is like the mechanic putting water in the radia- 

 tor. He does not remedy the impairments that are 

 present. 



When will we medical men cease to follow cunningly 

 devised theories to which we must make all the facts 

 conform? Why not follow the facts, let them lead us 

 where they will ? Here is a series of cases of sufficient 

 variety to prove to any open-minded critic that what- 

 ever formula was employed must have some merit. 

 Our experience showed that we obtained results from 

 the pluriglandular products that were not obtainable 

 from other preparations used previously. Why not 



