Endocrine Therapeutics

This is a delightful little book that should be in the hands of every practitioner, and Dr. Scott is to be congratulated in that he lias not only summarised the recent massive literature of the subject, but has done it in a readable manner, with a deep and earnest conviction that in these glands and in their correct use we have nature's own remedies for the many complications and symptoms of disease. Let us take the analogy of the human body to the motor car. All of us can remember the time when cars had to be laboriously and often dangerously wound up; now we use electrical self-starters in place of muscle. So it is in the body. All the unseen chemical changes we call metabolism have to be done by self-starters, for every endocrine gland is a motor and every endocrine gland has its brakes and accelerators, dependent upon the co-ordination of other glands; or we may put it that way.