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pituitarism as well, glandular feeding was insti- 

 tuted. 



On January 28 the patient felt so much stronger 

 and less nervous, that he was discharged. 



A letter received from the patient February 27 

 reported a further improvement in vision, a normal 

 temperature, and no constipation. On May 4 he 

 reported an increase in weight to 281 pounds (just 

 before the operation this weight was 269). On 

 June 27 the patient was seen in Los Angeles. The 

 vision in the right eye had further improved. He 

 recognized colors. He was less nervous and less 

 drowsy than before. 



A bit of fancy? At the International Congress 

 of Eugenics, held in New York in September, 1921, 

 a session was given over to the influence of the 

 endocrines on the organism. The papers presented 

 were of the type that belong to the borderland sepa- 

 rating fact from fancy. At any rate, one of New 

 York's very respectable papers had headlines such 

 as these : "Says glands cause gloom and crime. 

 A criminal is the victim of chemical reactions. 

 Scientist explains why a white man is white and 

 why man is superior to woman." One of the papers 

 dealt with the development of man from the mon- 

 key, and Professor Polk, Director of the Depart- 

 ment of Anatomy in the University of Amsterdam, 

 discussed the first change in man's ape ancestor, 

 the suppression of his hairy covering. He argued 



