Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-25
w. CEM II clHJOUJ
picking appendix, that has caused 50

picking appendix, that has caused 50
much trouble?
An impossibility-a ludicrous i'm.
possibiIity-of course. many will as.
|! sert promptly. Galen and Hippocrates
have been too long dead, Metschnikoft
and Koch too long alive, to make the
idea anything less than laughable.
Yet, denuded of its scientific
phraseology, it was precisely that
which brought together. in Philadel.
phia, short time ago, the two great
national bodies, the American Thera,
peutic society and the American
Pharmaceutical association.
They Joined to hear, from the lips
Of Dr. Charles E. de NJ Sajous, a dis
course on The Authoritative Re,
sources of the Body: a New Founda.
ton for Scientific Therapeutics"
Just where the head rests upon the
column of the spine, directly under
the human brain, is located a small
gland to which science succeeded in
giving a name and nothing more.
Science called it the pituitary body,
Sajous' work, it is said, has demon
strated that this gland is the last, Sc
cret stronghold of the life Of man;
and the fluids which the pituitary
body produces are those which gov
ern the products OF the adrenal sys-
TEN.
Located on the very top of the spin
al column, Immediately below the
brain, protected on all sides with the
utmost care, lies the pituitary body.
To its role in the economy of the hu-
man body a recently published text
book of physiology devotes seven
lines. Indeed, beyond the fact that it
was supposed to provide some sort Of
q secretion-the purpose of which had
never been fOund-nothing was known
as to the actual role of its forward
Lsbe; while its pOsteriOr lobe had been
reIegated to the rank of a remnant
from mans evolution.
Sajous demonstrates, it is claimed,
not only that this conception is false.
but that the pituitary body, in its re-
larjOns to the functions of the body at
large. is even more important than
the brain itself None Of these func-
tons is impaired when the cerebral
hemispheres of the brain are removed;
all cease, however, when the pituitary
body is submitted to the same rs
moval
The brain, as the organ of the mind,
can utilize the spinal system, with
which 1t is connected, to execute its
mandates; but the spinal system is
also supplied with its own brain, the
pituitary body, which Sajous terms the
somatic brain, the governing organ Of
all vegetatige functions. He shows,
moreover, that this somatic brain con-
tains a delicate organ whose mission
is to protect the body against disease.
Sajous studied this organ in the ami
nal scale, and found it in all animals
down to such low forms as mollusks,
where It bears a suggestive name Civ
en- to 1t by biologists, the test-organ.
or osphradium, and is known by them
to have the function Of testing the wa
ter for these lowly beings as they
pass through it and take it in.
In the higher vertebrates, including
man, this test-organ protects against
disease.
Thus IT is asserted that in the so
matte BRAIN" in the pituitary body
in that new and tiny brain Of the
human being whose functions Sajous
has at last discovered-lies the uIti-
mate seat Of human life, lies the cita-
del which is the very center Of the
agents that guard against the destruc-
ton Of life.