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In contrast with these defectives are the cases of infantiMsm, charac- 

 terized by the persistence of the physical and mental characteristics of 

 childhood, but without idiocy or dwarfism. The miniature men of the 

 Lorain type and the defectives of the Mongolian type with their slanting 

 'eyes, bulgmg foreheads, are examples of this class, due in most instances 

 to defects in the upbuilding of the organism, a process in which all the 

 ductless glands take part. Still another, though rarer, type is the infan- 

 tilism of pituitary origin — obesity with feminism in the distribution of fat, 

 the nates, thighs, and breasts especially, but with deficient development of 

 the sexual organs, a moon face, and weak mentality. 



Crime presents aspects which also belong to the field of the hemadeno- 

 logist. All the types described above are usually docile, the exceptions 

 being some cases of the pituitary adiposogenital type, and show but little 

 if any predilection for vice. Among those recorded as imbeciles, who show 

 deficient intelligence and loquaciousness, abnormally good memory, 

 untruthfulness, arrogance, and maliciousness, may sometimes be dis- 

 cerned types, which owing to the landmarks of defective development 

 resulting from imperfect balance of ductless gland activities, point to 

 links between the latter and crime. To seek these associations, restore 

 normal equipoise in the production of hormones, thus insuring normal 

 metabolism in all tissues, particularly the osseous and central nervous 

 systems when it is still time, offers broad avenues of hope for the redemp- 

 tion of some of these unfortunates from the drifts of iniquity. 



Insanity likewise claims the attention of the hemadenologist. The 

 psychoses of exophthalmic goitre and myxedema, and the idiocy of micro- 

 cephaly due to inadequacy or absence of the adrenals, are familiar exam- 

 ples. Dementia praecox, which is stated to initiate twenty-five per cent, 

 of the cases of insanity harbored in our asylums, is increasingly being 

 shown to be closely related to perverted action of the same glands, various 

 types of the disease being represented by a corresponding number of forms 

 of abnormal glandular action. Such being the case, we are brought to 

 realize the many directions in which abnormal activity of the ductless 

 glands may affect mentality. Beside the enfeeblement of the mind 

 characterized by unequal weakening of the faculties, emotion, judgment, 

 self control, etc., we witness impulsive actions, flightiness, catalepsy, 

 automatic obedience, vergiberation, mutism, delusions, hallucinations, 

 etc. The field is thus prolific in its opportunities for the elucidation of 

 many of the cojmplex problems with which psychiatrists are confronted in 

 respect to the genesis of psychoses. 



Obesity in all its forms normally falls within the scope of hemadenology . 

 Beside the familiar varieties due to overuse of carbohydrates, defective 

 oxidation, etc., there are types which, as is well known, are due to defi- 



