Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-26
DIR. SAJ0Us' DISCOVERY
He claimssTh9F Are the Real ssst Of
Vitality II Mans Physical
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From the Philadelphia Ledger Of Today.
The medical wcf4d. of which Philadelphia
is one Of tie CHIEF centers. was placed in
possession Yesterday OF what some physi-
clans regard aafyhe most significant dis
covcry In that science In recent times.
A paper read by DR.. c. e. de NJ. Sajous
before the Philadelphia County Medical So
ciety last evening revealed the results OF
laborious studies and Investigations begun
! by him In 1850 and continued with great as
siduity ever since. The paper was entitled
THE Ductless Glands as Organs OF the
First Importance in Vital Functions and
Their Relationship to Disease and Thera-
peutics''
Heretofore medical men have looked upon
the ductless glands as problems not capable
OF absolute solution, and at best as organs
OF the merest subsidiary Importance.
DIR. Sajous' theory raises them to the first
anatomical rank, and makes the better
known organs, isuch as the heart, lungs.
liver, ETC.. in a certain sense, subsidiary
structures. the instruments in a measure
Of the former
Two small organs. known as the supra
renal glands, because they are situated just
above the kidneys. have been regarded as
virtually useless, or as vestfges OF organs
whose functions have become extinct.
DR.. Sajous has found that they have
most intimate connection with the vital ele-
ments OF the physiological system; that
their secretion. the purpose of which had
been unknown, is carried directly to the
lungs, and, that it is this that takes up the
oxygen introduced through the breathing
| named by him 'andrenoxin,' which be-
comes mixed with the fluid part OF the
blood, and courses through all the blood
channels of the body. even the minutest.
| 1t Is this "andrenoxin,' and not the red
( corpuscles, as formerly believed, which,
according to; DR.. Sajous. supplies all the
| tissues with oxygen.
DR.. Sajous found that the suprarenal
glands were connected by nerves with a
small organ In the brain. called the an
terror pituitary body, the functions OF which
have heretofore been unknown. This proved.
| through his Investigation, to be the govern
| ing center of the glands and the regulator
Of the amount of oxygen absorbed from the
control of the adrenal secretion
| When studied from the standpoint of dis
| ease and treatment, said DR.. Sajous in sub
stance, the anterior pituitary became still
| more important in the body. as it proved to
1 be the organ upon which all disease produc-
| ing poisons and all other. poisons acted.
| Some were found to stimulate it and others
| to depress 1t. Any tfisease-poison which
stimulated 1t increased the intake of cxy-
| gen. This, In turn. by causing increased
| combustion in the tissues tended to destroy
| the poison.
known as fever. This also furnished the
| reason for "vulnerability" to disease, which
was found to mean a weak pituitary body,
| poor oxidation of the tissues, and, there
fore, weak Vitality
Consumptiop, said DR.. Sajous. is not at
first disease OF 1.-THE lungs Weakness of
| this small organ II (the anterior pituitary
| body make5ithe stfbject vulnerable to the
germs of tuharculQsis. both in the intestine
| CONTRARY to, Pr. Koch's view and in the
lungs. The same is the case with Asiatic
| cholera, cholera infantum and other cpl
| demic diseasesE
| Az cf-nf ipt, tIa ;f,la
| of his discovery is the fact that President
| McKinley's death was rendered inevitable
by the destructionfof the pancreas and one
of the suprarenal glands by the bullet OF
| the assassin. The blackening of the tissues
| and mortificatton were due to the cutting
off of the supply ofsoxygen in the blood.
| One of the dmost significant steps in. DIR.
| Sajous' INVESTIGATION, was the realization
that the adrenals the suprarenal glands
could be considered as the key not only to
tissue-respiration'- hthat is. the conveying
of oxygen to the constituent cells-'but also
classed as Duchess glands Hosa; ?