Volume 1

The internal secretions and the principles of medicine / by Charles E. de M. Sajous.

  • Charles E. de M. Sajous
Date:
1912
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    the test-organ, and provoke through it an accumulation of auto-anti- to-xin and tliyroidase (opsonin) in the blood; 93. That the convulsive diseases: tetany, tetanus, epilepsy, puer- peral eclampsia and rabies, are all due to the accumulation of to.xic waste-products in the blood; 94. That all these convulsive diseases can be arrested by measures which prevent the accumulation of toxic wastes in the blood and which increase the proportion of auto-antitoxin in the latter,—provided organic lesions in the cortex (gliosis) have not been given time to develop; 95. Tliat all the diseases grouped under “gouty diathesis:” gout, migraine, neuralgia, sciatica, etc., are due to hypoactivity of the test- organs and the adrenal system; And, in virtue of these six conclusions:— 96. Tliat the most fatal and distressing diseases of mankind have not been mastered because the cardinal role of the adrenal system in their pathogenesis, prevention and cure, has been overlooked. As previously stated, this list includes only the more im- portant I’unetions that my researches—including personal inves- tigations in the laboratoiy, clinical observations, and analysis of the vast fund of knowledge available in literature—have brought to light. Were all enumerated, including those intro- duced in the departments of “PharmacodjTiamies” and “Patho- genesis and Therapeutics” (where they are designated by aster- isks in each drug and disease studied), they would aggregate several hundred. This fact is only referred to in order to illus- trate the far-reaching importance of the functions of-the internal secretions in all processes, normal, morbid, or protective, and the large number of gaps they fill. The final conclusions to which I have been led—those sub- mitted in the second volume—are not offered as mere theories, but as solutions carefully worked out from the abundant mate- rial at my disposal. My labors as editor of the “Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences” and the “Cyclopaedia of Practical i\Iedicine” having shown tliat it was to the habit of theorizing with a few facts as foundation into which investigators, and particularly laboratory workers, have fallen, that the confusion which characterizes the Medicine of our day was due, the fol- lowing working plan was adopted : The literature of each suli- ject, my own ex]ierimental and clinical observations, etc., were collected, sulidivided and filed. When a given subject was taken up, each paper available was analyzed and the sound ex- perimental or clinical facts or observations were noted and arianged in scries. In physiological questions, the teachings of physiological botany, zoology and cytology were added. All