The Carbon County news., 1930-01-02
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WHY WE BEHAVE
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
BY GEORGE DORSEY. Phi. D.. LID.
Why Adrenin Bucks Us Up

footlng'-as our country did few
years ago. Piano manufacturers be
Kan to make airplanes. Artists turnet
from painting corset advertisements Il
camouflaging battleships. Our suga
fatlons were cut that the fighters
might have enough. The entire plan
OF the nation turned from peaceful
pursuits to speed up the fuel for the
engines of war. Life had become q
dog fight.
Ever try to take bone from a dog
Or observe a cat When dog suddenly
appears? Or mother when some one
INJURIES her child? How do you feel
when you are "horror-stricken.' "sicl
with disgust, ''paralyzed with fear,
crazy with PAIN" or so mad You
sehokef Tongue cleaving to the roof
OF the mouth, "eoldsweat," pupils of
the eyes dilated. pounding heart, hur.
ried breathing, hair ON end. muscles of
face and especially of the lips trem.
bling and twitching: such are among
the obvious symptoms of pain, of hor
ror of fear, etc.
We recognize many emotional states
and are subject TO them in varying in
tensity: pain, anger. fear, rage, hor.
for, sorrow anxiety, grief, terror, dis.
gust. An insulting word may literally
alter our entire nature. We feel these
states; we observe the results in 9th.
ers. What Is not so obvious is that
| the body itself often undergoes pro.
| found physiological change.
The mechanism by which our ma.
| lures can be suddenly altered is to he
| found in the middle or sympathetic
division of the autonomic nervous sys
tenn according to the theory
secretion of the medulla of the adrenal
gland. The way these two work To-
sother and the striking, sudden, and
far-reaclling consequences of their ac.
tions, form the basis for Cannon's
claim in 1914 that adrenin is natures
reply to the crises, the unexpected do.
ordie emergencies of living animals
Emotional behavior gets its Kick from
adrenin With adrenin, towards may
fight for their lives, brave men NAV
sufpass Themselves and all of us can
run as we never ran before, or shed
tears of sorrow over the loss of
friends.
There are three divisions of the au
tonomie nervous system. The upper,
or cranial, is concerned with the ioys
and sorrows of life It's nerves con
serve the body, building up reserves
and fortifying the body for times of
crises. BY narrowing the pupils they
shield the eye from too much light
By slowing the heartbeat they give
the heart muscles longer periods for
rest. By causing the mouth to water
they set the juice flowing and supply |
muscular tone for the alimentary ca |
nals ceaseless movements. The low
err, or sacral, division covers the emp
tying mechanisms of large intestine
and urogenita system; relief and com
fort acts.
Between cranial and sacra is the
sympathetic division enormously i'm
portant. II dilates the pupils of the
eyes, hurries up heartbeat. stands
hairs on end by causing each smooth
hair-muscle to contract, opens sweat
glands (pouring out excess heat), stops
in stomach and intestine.
releases sugar (the best fighting fue)
from the liver, and releases adrenin
The medulla of the adrenal, alone of
all of the endocrine glands. is con
nected with the autonomic nervous
system.
Here is the point: Adrenin itself.
injected into the blood, will dilate pu
pills, stand hairs on end, constrr
blood vessels, stop the vegctative ac.
Livities in alimentary canal, and re
lease sugar from the liver. Remove
he liver from the body keep it alive
adrenin will cause it TO
'elease sugar.
The real business of the adrenal
Glands, according to Cannons theory
S emergency function. When we must
light or run for our lives, our body has
10 time to fool with mouth watering
or its appetite or several yards of
canal activity.
When joy is so strong or a sorrow
II a disgust so deep that it breaks
'ver the threshold of the cranial di
ision and enters the sympathetic, we
use our appetite: no saliva, no gas
ric or pancreatic iuice. no movement
n the intestine. Even an empty stom
ch stops growing and holds its peace
'hen war is on.
And war is on when any Of life's in
tnctlve acts with emotional trim
lings are thwarted Anger. The body
! prepared TO fight All it's life long
has had to know how to kill. how
} avoid death. II has had to learn
} count on its muscles and its nerves
hen the test comes Adrenn is sup
osed to he the answer.
According to Cannon's theory. adre
in bucks us up II speeds up the
nau-beat Draws blood from spleen
dneys. inlestines. and other inhibt
] organs of the abdomcn-thus also
'ducng their size. Drives blood to
e skeletal muscles. brain. and lungs