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That these hormones regulate metabolism is now a 

 logical deduction. They regulate and balance the cir- 

 culation, and no digestive organ can provide nutrition 

 for assimilaton unless its proper blood supply is in- 

 sured. This being true, when dyshormonism occurs, 

 the other dependent systems (vasomotor, muscular, 

 nervous) suffer, and the tissue wastes remain improp- 

 erly replenished, secretion and excretion lose their in- 

 terdependent balance, and the whole body suffers be- 

 cause of it. 



If a professional man possesses a well-balanced poise 

 he is the owner of an admirable personality, and the 

 more able to care for responsibilities. How much poise 

 can any man or woman have whose systems are not 

 in accord? Where dyshormonism is dominant, both 

 body and mind must suffer. 



As a parting reiteration, I would emphasize the 

 symptoms which clinically portray this lack of sys- 

 temic poise which governs the body and the mind, viz., 

 hypotension, hypodynamia, and hyponervosa or hypo- 

 asthenia which is the sum total of all. I would also 

 make a final plea for the already named synergistic 

 supportive treatment, for patience, and for persistence 

 or the necessary time which these potent agencies must 

 have in order to do their work. 



My parting declaration is that the early restoration 

 of this deranged hormone balance insures to the pa- 

 tient a greater resistance against tuberculosis, and 

 we know how prone it is to follow pneumonia and 

 influenza. 



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Harrower (H. R.) : "Practical Organotherapy," The 



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 Kendall (E. C.) : "The Thyroid Hormone and Its 



Relation to Other Ductless Glands," Endocrinology 



(Los Angeles), 1918, ii, 81. 



