The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-28
ANOTHER MEDICAL Dis
COVERY.

In yesterdays paper we said something
about a new medical discovery. In to-
days paper we have the pleasure to an
nounco another. Tho Philadelphia Re-
cord says that discoveries Of paramount
Importance, brushing aside many anti
quated therories In medical practice, were
reported at meeting Of the Philadelphia
County Medical Society Wednesday night
by DR., q. Il. M. sajous '.The Doctor
discovered" says our contemporary:
THAT the secretion OF tho small or
gans above the kidneys, the suprarenal
glands, the purposes OF which have here
tofore, been unknown, Is carrid to the
lungs, and that It is this secretion which
takes up the oxygen and forms a new
substance now termed adrenoxin, which
becomes mixed with the fluid part Of the
blood and courses through oil tile bloo.1
vessels.
1T is this adrenoxin and not the red
blood corpusles that supplies all the
tissues with oxygen. Being fluid 1t pen
etrates the most minute vessels Of the
body and into the very cells Of which
the tissues are formed.
with these vastly important discov-
,erles as a basis for further work. Dr..
Sajous then found the suparenal glands
to be connected by minute nerves with
a small organ in the brain. designated
in all medical literature as the anterior
pituitary body, an organ which has at
tracted and held the close attention OF
medical authorities throughout the world
for years, because Of the noted patho-
logic changes in its structure during the
progress of certain obscure diseases.
"1,he function of the anterior pituitary
body, like that of the suprarenal glands,
was wholly unknown until DR.. Sajous
identified it as the governing center OF
the glands and an organ OF the first I'M
portance, regulating the amount OF
oxygen absorbed from the air by con-
trolling the secretion Of the suprarenal
glands"
And SO the discoveries come thick and
fast Here we have been going on from
the beginning Under the impression that
these valuable little glands were as use
less as the vermiform appendix Yet
this great discovery tells us that they are
among the most important Of all the parts
of our anatomy. and that they have been
neglected to our sorrow.
We are now prepared for any announcel
ment which the discoverers may make
We are looking out every day for aomo
man to discover that tho vermtform APP
pendix Is not only not useless, and not
only a menace, as supposed, but that 1t
Is absolutely Indispensable and that It
has some great function to perform which
will bring health and Joy to the human
race. We direct the attention OF the
discoverers to this unruly member. We
beg them to investigate the vermlform
and make uso Of 1t, instead Of cutting
it out. OF course. It would be a serious
blow to high society and to the arlsto-
cracy Of the land Tor the aristocrauo
disease called appendicitis TO be climina-
ted, but We are writing In the interest Of
suffering humanity and not in the interest
of society Now, gentlemen of the NOR.
tar and pestle, turn your x.ray upon
the vermiform, Just as the Philadelphia
doctor has turned his upon these too long
neglected glands. and let us know what
the wermiform was put into the body
| for, and what are Its functions.
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