Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-02

Your Body Actually Has Two Electric
Batteries.
Whoever it is that maintains that
miracles are of the past knows not
his own physiology. Great floods have
flown from simple sources, and great
seas have dried at the very moment
miracles have been denied.
A miracle is the wonderful per-
Torrance carried out almost every
! instant your pulse throbs or you IN
| hale a breath by those little cruller-
like glands which nestle above and
abaft the kidneys, clinging closely to
/ their fatty coverings. Almost every
high school child is aware nowadays
of the supra-renal glands, as they are
called.
Variously known as the adrenals,
! the epirenals, supra-renals and near
kidneys, they are in reality only
pair of waxy, mushy structures
about the size of badly formed
pigeons egg. and, In fact, resemble
the kidneys in no way, shape, manner,
action or form.
! Strange, indeed, and many are the
daily miracles which they perform.
The adrenal glands are veritable
treasure troves of mystery power ana
| surprises.
The Miracle Workers.
Since the day when Drs. Thomas
Addison and the famous Brown
Sequard exposed these paradises of
human magic, no month has elapsed
without some new and more amazing
discovery being made with regard to
them.
Not only are these little glands abb
solutely essential to life and we'll
ht1f tnx tn e
ness, your love of life and of sugar,
your temperament, the pumping
power of your heart, the capacity of
your blood to coagulate and save you
from fatal hemorrhages, and your eff
ficiency as an athlete or q muscular
expert, be it of any kind.
Electricity in It's application to the
human frame confers energy upon the
living textiles of your anatomy. Yet
stored away in these little suprarenal
glands Is q whole sun of magnetism
and electricity. If the died adrenal
glands of calves, sheep or pigs are fed
to man or any animal there takes
place the same effects upon the nerves
as occur when electrical stimulation
is administered. In fine, each person,
If well, contains two little inexhausti-
BILE electric batteries.
IL the skin of certain persons whose
blood pressure Is low, who lacks
energy, who bleed easily from
scratches and cuts, is bronzed and
darkly augmented, it usually points
to some ailment or deficiency of the
adrenal glands. tuberculosis OF
these organs presents just such symp-
toms to the analytic eye of that rare
bird among doctors-a painstahng
diagnostician.
In children occasionally the pre-
cocious growth of other organs, alb
normal accumulation of adipose It's
sue. and a large, thick development
of hair over the skin point almost I'M
erringly to swelling or alterations In
these glands.
In the delicate interval before the
birth of her child, nature marvellous
~ endows the mother with an extra
supply Of the juices from the adrenal
glands by increasing their size.
There is an intimate family link be-
tween the adrenals, the thyroid, the
ovaries and the sperm glands. All
are like sponges without runaways.
That is to say, they literally squeeze
their products and fluids into the
ebb and flow of blood and lymph as
it battles them in its passage to and
fro through the body. Furthermore,
each can in a fashion compensate and
fill in few of the shortcomings of
the other.
"Rest" Cure.
In other words, the adrenals, with
these other glandular organs, have a
community of interest. The thyroid,
however, has been dethroned from its
high place as chief and most inn
portant of these glands. The supru-