The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-03-03
DR.. SAJOUS'
DISCOVERY
Has Found New Vital Organs
In the Human SyStsm.
M -DICkL TRADITION UPSET.
DuctlssS Stands, Heretofore Regarded as
UnImportant, Held TO Be Of the Greatest
Value by the Doctor.
M .DICAL TRADITION UPSET.

/ Philadelphia. March 3,-Dr. c. r. dc NJ.
Sajous has startled the medical fraternity
by the announcement of discovery
which, II IT proves good. Will completely
overthrow the present theory and practice
OF medicine. He declares that organs
which physicians have always regarded
az vestiges OF those that have no func-
tions are the most important In the hu-
man anatomy.
Two little organs just above the kid
neys, which physicians have from the
earliest times looked upon as being as
useless as the Vermiform appendix, are
raised by DR.. Sajous TO the first place I'm
the human makeup.
These organs the physician says he has
discovered after nearly twenty years OF
investigation, are the medium for taking
the supply OF oxygen into the bloou, ana
that they, not the red corpuscels. perform
this function. As the treatment and un-
derstanding of disease depend upon the
condition Of these organs and the organ
I'm the brain to which they are attached,
the new discovery II subsequent investl-
cations show IL TO be valid, Will complete
ly revolutionize medicine.
Physicians who are discussing the dis
covery say that If it Is worth anything
IL is the greatest discovery since anaes-
thetics DR.. Sajous' standing as an emf
nent editor of medical literature and
leading practitioner Of this city, has Sc
cured for the announcement OF the dis
covery a cordial reception.
TESTING THE THEORY.
In dozen laboratories Investigations
have been started TO test DR.. SaJous' the
ory. Conservative physicians are inclined
to regard il with doubt, but the Anti
Vaccination society and representatives
OF other bodies have proclaimed the dis
covery the greatest of the decade.
III DR.. Sajous discovery had been made
In Paris by physician of his standing
there said doctor today. "the cables
would be filed with the details OF 1t. and
the physicians Of the whole United states
wetf4d be engaged In testing the merits Of
it,"
Or. Sajous made the announcement or
ms discovery "Wednesday nlght peiore .he
Philadelphia County Medical society in
carefully prepared paper The Ductless
Glands as Organs of the First lmpor-
tance I'm the Vital Functions. and Their
Relations to Disease and Therapeutics.
The two small organs above the Kid
neys. known as the supra renal organs,
he said, are connected with an organ In
the brain known as pituitary. These
organs, he explained have the most In
innate connection with the human sys-
tenn. Their secretions. he said, are car
ried directly TO the lungs, and these Sc
cretions II is that take up the oxygen
breathed in. This process forms new
substance. which he has named "adre-
noxin." and this, he says, becomes mix
ed with the fluid part of the blood and
courses through all the blood channels or
the body, even the most minute.
OF FIRST IMPORTANCE
The pituitary organ. Dr. Sajous assert
ed, iS or the first Importance in deter
mining tho healthfulness of a person. IL
is. he said. the governing centre of the
glands, and practically regulates the
distribution of life through the veins.
When IL Is in a wasted or weakened con-
dition. then the subject offers a splendid
mark for the invasion of disease.
This organ, he said, is the one on which
all disease producing poisons and other
poisons act Some stimulated. others de-
pressed IL. Any poison which stimulates
Increases the supply of oxygen. This
causes increased combustion I'm the tls-
sues, and the symptoms which follow are
fever" A weak pituitary means a poor
supply of oxygen and hence a weak vital
ity.
Consumption. he said. is not primarily
a disease OF the lungs. Weakness OF the
pituitary permits the ingress of the tu-
berculosis germs and germs attack the
lungs. The same, he said, holds true
demic diseases.
Drugs, ne said act on the pituitary
DR.. Satous began his Investigations for
the purpose OF discovering how oxygen
acts on the blood. His conclusion is:
The supra-renal glands can be con-
sidered as the key not only TO tissue res
piration, but also 10 the functions OF
all other organs now classed as ductless
glands"