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If we take up the phase of hypotension in chronic 

 diseases of non-infectious origin, there is very little 

 that could be said that has not been said already in 

 general regarding the similar conditions in acute in- 

 fectious diseases. In both circumstances patients are 

 suffering more or less from toxemia, caused by the 

 bacterial poison, produced in their development. In 

 non-infectious chronic conditions, on the other hand, 

 the toxemia is caused by the retention of the products 

 of metabolism or as the result of malmetabolism. In 

 both classes, generally speaking, we have poor elimina- 

 tion, caused in part, at least, by the accompanying low 

 blood pressure. [Elsewhere the reviewer has shown 

 that the opposite is equally true, i. e., that the deficient 

 chemistry favors the hypotension. H. R. H.] Then, 

 of course, a part of the treatment in both of these 

 classes of diseases becomes the same efforts to in- 

 crease elimination as nearly as possible up to normal, 

 and direct support of the played out glands by the use 

 of adrenal substance with the other endocrines by 

 measures which act on the urinary and alimentary 

 tracts. 



ENDOCRINE ASPECTS OF CANCER 



For over a quarter of a century, the two diseases that 

 have received my greatest study and attention are tu- 

 berculosis and malignant growths. With cancer, I am 

 no longer looking for a germ as the causative factor, 

 but I consider cancer from the start to the end as a 

 condition due to autointoxication. The breaking out of 

 the sore at the site of an old bruise or continued irrita- 

 tion is not the beginning of cancer. The foundation for 

 the new growth was laid months or even years before 

 in chronic autointoxication. If this underlying, pre- 

 cancerous condition had not existed, the site of the 

 bruise or irritation would not have become the site of 

 the cancer, for where one cancer sore develops at a 



