268 THE INTERNAL SECRETIONS 1920 



It is common knowledge that postoperative insanity 

 follows the surgical efforts of the very best men. If 

 these vital hormone producers are working in unison, 

 if the various systems of the organism are in accord, 

 if the calcium and natron ions in the plasma are pro- 

 portionately correct, then the author claims that such 

 surgical cases will emerge from their operations in 

 greater safety, with more chance for recovery, and 

 with less chance of postoperative mental disturbance. 



With this in mind I report another case: Mrs. K., 

 housewife, age 32, had influenza, with all the severe 

 symptoms enumerated in the other cases reported. 

 Under the same organotherapeutic treatment, after 

 three months, she was operated on successfully by the 

 author for anal fissure, hemorrhoids, ventral fixation 

 of the uterus, ovariotomy and appendectomy. The pa- 

 tient had been so very melancholic for so long that 

 it would have been but a step more to mental insta- 

 bility of a pronounced type, while now she is cheerful 

 and is doing her own housework; in fact, is surely 

 and safely approaching a normal condition. 



Another case in question followed a street car 

 wreck; cholecystectomy, appendectomy, right pyelitis, 

 separation of many adhesions about Glisson's capsule 

 and the diaphragm this being followed by pneumonia 

 and diaphragmatic pleurisy. After two years the in- 

 fluenza was acquired, pneumonia again affected the 

 lower lobe of the right lung, and a subdiaphragmatic 

 abscess broke into the bowel and was discharged. 

 The patient then emerged from a long siege of suf- 

 fering with the sequelae formerly noted. 



After a course of pluriglandular therapy, he re- 

 gained his strength and the systemic balances, and 

 then was able to be operated on for hemorrhoids and 

 anal fissure. To my way of thinking his convalescence 

 was greatly aided by compound organotherapy. Sur- 

 geons will find organotherapy a wonderful aid as they 

 learn more about such treatment. 



