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almost inevitable results. All of us, I suppose, 

 can look back on some of our school prodigies, and 

 have seen how rarely they lasted into after life, 

 while the slow-developing, plodding boy turned 

 into a successful man. Such children's brains 

 should not be pressed, but their energies should 

 be turned in other directions such as games or 

 some handicraft as a diversion. Unless one can 

 find some other endocrine fault, not much can 

 be done by treatment for these children, but 

 much can be done by diet ; these are the children 

 that should have almost a meatless diet. Oatmeal, 

 milk, eggs, good farinaceous food, fresh vegetables, 

 butter, fat bacon, and fish should be the chief 

 foods, for all the purins are probably adrenal 

 stimulants; in fact, these children want to be 

 dieted in the same way as we diet patients with 

 high pressure and arterio-sclerosis in old age. 

 In dropsical conditions, especially in those due to 

 kidney deficiency and cardiac failure, hypodermic 

 injections of adrenalin have been found very use- 

 ful ; they must be given in large doses, 20-30 

 minims of liq. adrenalin, and in such doses 

 powerfully aid the action of ordinary diuretics, 

 such as theocin and anasarcin. 



Till we get past middle life, hyperadrenia is 

 not often noticeable, except in the acute febrile 



