Evening star., 1924-04-25

body and will give a new lease of
relatively normal functioning power
to those on the shady side of middle
age
Regeneration means more today
than any subject that can concern a
man or woman" DR.. Bailey said. "The
wrinkled face, the drawn skin, the
dull eye, the listless gait. the faulty
memory, the aching body. the de-
structive effects of Sterility, all spell
imperfect endocrine performance. SO
definite are the external evidences
as indicators of the endocrlnes func-
tioninE that we have worked out
chart which enables a very accurate
diagnosis of endocrine functioning to
be arrived at. although this endocrine
picture be separated by an ocean or
a continent from the patient
Insanity Is Gland Condition.
Turning to insanity and its causes
Dr. Bailey declared that we have too
long regarded insanity as purely
brain condition. He declared that its
seat is unQuestionably in the endo-
crime glands. which absolutely con-
troll every gland function"
1.-The Thaw case and the fact that
more than 10000 people commit sui
eide yearly in America should awak-
en- scientists to an intensive study
of mental alterations along the lines
of endocrine analysis" he added
Suicide is not confined to any one
class-millionaire and pauper bank
president and office boy, ministers,
judges, doctors, editors, are found
in the list. If we look more to the
endocrine glands and less to the
head, we have an excellent chance
of eradicating insanity
mo greater truth has been vouch-
safed to mankind than that these
lowly masses of colloidal ooze
regulate all body activity, down to
istics as we'll as the distinctive marks
of personality known throughout
history and branding and setting
apart the recognizable types of the
human races find their origin here"
Warns of Auto Gases.
No measures of precaution should
be overlooked in the prevention of
the possibility of carbon monoxide
poisoning from the exhaust gases of
automobiles. DR.. W. 2. Yant of the
bureau of mines declared in an ad-
dress There seems to be no limit of
time during which the engine may be
run in a closed private garage with
safety to the occupant DR.. Yant said.
THE doors of the garage" he said,
should be opened previous to starting
the engine even il it is only intended
to take the car out. because no mat
ter how careful people might be,
few unheeded minutes taken to look
at the tires or measure the gasoline
tank might prove disastrous. II II IS
necessary to run the engine for any
lengthy period, the car should by all
means be run into the open and even
then the direct exhaust should be
avoided in order to decrease the pos
sibility of headache and discomfort.
A method whereby apples can be
canned with no destruction of vita
Minis was descri bed before the So
cietv today by DR.. Edward F. Koh-
man of the National Gamers ASso-
citation,
Canned spinach was declared by Dr..
Walter H Eddy of Columbia Uni
varsity to be one of the richest
sources of vitamin "A" yet found and
is also one of the richest sources or
vitamin &C." the anti-scorbutic vita
min. Nutritional chemists have De-
lieved the latter vitamin was an un-
stable compound, but Drs. kohman
and Eddy showed that certain tech
nical procedures in commercial can
ming eliminate the destructive rae
tors.
Dr. E. F.. Smith Presides.
DR.. Edgar F. Smith. provost emeri-
tus of the University OF Pennsyl-
vania, presided at today's session OF
the section Of chemical education, at
which various reports were sub
mitted, including a report by Prof:
Neil e. Gordon of the University of
MARYLAND for the committee on chem
ical education.
Sessions were also held by the divi-
sion of petroleum chemistry, the di-
vision of rubber chemistry, division
of agricultural and food chemistry,
division of physical and inorganic
chemistry, division Of sugar chem
istry and division of organic chem
istry. Prof. S. w. Parr, member OF
the American engineering councils
coal storage study committee, was
chairman OF a meeting of the section
of gas and fuel chemistry. Eight
papers describing the activities of
federal bureaus relating to industrial
chemistry were presented at today's
session.