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does not occur, this stage of intermittent and remittent adrenal 

 iuacy gives way in turn to the state of permanent adrenal 

 insufficiency. 



The adrenal insufficient is important because he is to be 

 where. Built along the same lines as the adrenal 

 and apt to be taken for him, he differs and contrasts vividly below 

 the surface. One may sum him up by saying that he is one 

 variety of neurasthenic, perhaps the most frequent 

 Cold hands and feet plague him, cold feet psychically as w 



cally, for a chronic and obsessive indecision is one of his 

 most prominent complaints. A fatigability, that goes with a luw 

 blood pressure, lowered body temperature and a disturbed ability 

 to utilize sugar for fuel purposes, is another of his chief com- 

 plaints. The skin often presents an instability of the bloo< ! 

 sels, so that they now react to stroking with a blanched in 

 of a reddened effect. Irritability, a liability to go off the handle 

 at the slightest provocation, and a consequent complete exhaus- 

 tion that, after an outburst, sends him to bed, is conspicuous. 

 Dismissed sometimes contemptuously as weaklings, tin 

 cused of laziness, craziness, and haziness. In their psychic 

 attempts to compensate, they land into all kinds of hot v 

 from which friends, relatives or luck extricate them sometimes. 

 The other times they go to the wall. 



The congenital adrenal deficient is a special problem. If the 

 history of such an individual is followed from bfrtn7 one gets 

 a pretty typical story. The genealogy is nervous. Nervous is 

 a word of many meanings. But when parents confess them 

 nervous, it generally means a mental and emotional instability 

 of some sort. Sometimes the i moufia< A\ strung. 



In the feeding narrative of the child, on 



nts or ( ; roubl e, difficulty 



tures. flcr the first year or (wo, the nutritional chr 



ctory. Lack of app ck of en ck of 



ad the motif 

 childhood. 



in. It ' children 



. Chronically below 'it and hi 



ihool lif< 



OpOfl iv in which the l 



etupidit; oding. If the 



