Evening star., 1934-06-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRAcEWELL.

a friend, as the latter came to middle
age and a bit past 1t.
i. Physical and spiritual weariness
2. All things which used to move,
interest and torment him are indif-
ferent to him.
8. He loses his capacity for emo
tional reactions, his sensuality is di-
minished
4. He begins to seek solitude.
5. He grows tired of people.
6. He appears to lose his connec.
ton with humanity.
Well, what do you think he would
think of his friend?
The chances are 100 to /, or you
might even make 1t a thousand -to-one
shot, that he would call him lazy. or
just plain "cussed," or would laugh
and recommend a good vacation"
But DR.. Sokoloff lists these as char
acteristics Of this. terrible disease un-
der discussion.
And one may wonder how many sick
persons there are in the world who
never receive any sympathy or un-
derstanding from their friends, or
even their own home folks.
One may wonder how many i'll souls,
stricken in their endocrine glands, and
the various other invisible mysteries
Of the human system, have gone down
at last without one iota of true un-
derstanding on the part of those alone,
out Of the vast world of humanity,
who ought to have cared, whose sacred
duty 1t was to give sympathy, first,
last and all the time.
Instead, they expostulated, they
condemned, they scorned, without
knowing thing about what they were
trying to correct, or the cause; they
laughed, when there should have been
tears, and they wept when weeping
could do no good.
Modern humanity suffers from one
overwhelming fault" says DR.. Sokoloff.
1T pretends to be Intellectual Mod
ern medicine possesses the same fault,
but to an even greater extent Thanks
to this defect of ours, we try to i'm
prove upon nature, to change it to
state which our intellect considers
preferable. These endeavors seldom
succeed"
He adds these helpful words For
nature in its essence is very conserva-
tive. and any living organism repre-
Sents a carefully balanced system.
whose equilibrium is not easily i'm
nc rkA &c
turn, possesses an almost perfect, an
almost magical mechanism for the
preservation Of its vitality upon the
necessary level.
The vitality of man Is extraordi-
narily great. 1t is far greater than
each of us supposes The potential
energy of man is immeasurably larger
than the amount he expends in his
whole lifetime. Its sources are in
exhaustible."
We suspect that Prof. Pitkin. that
energetic man, is the proud poSSessor
Of a perfectly fine internal system.
one which has the best type of adrenal
glands. with their precious cortex Gas
DR.. Sokoloff points out), and that his
pep" is due to their possession, rather
than to the methods which he adopts
of himself. by himself, and for him
self. and which he willingly recon-
mends to other people.
DR.. Sokoloff believes that discoveries
in the physiological laboratories of the
world in recent years represent
revolution, the significance of which
may very soon be realized" God speed
the dayl
What We like about his book is that
he prescribes nothing. He does not
preach, nor does he frighten. but goes
about his business of telling something
about vitality, old age, and the final
loss by the body Of its morphoeenetic'
or dictatorship power. which, in
health. keeps all the cells in line.