the brain and the thyroid be severed, or if the lobe be excised
and the patient reinforced by a sojourn in a sanatorium or in some
environment free from former noci-associations, he may be restored
to normal health, provided that the brain-cells, the heart,
or other essential organs have not suffered irreparable damage.
There are still many missing links in the solution of this problem,
and the foregoing hypotheses are not offered as final, although from
the viewpoint of the surgeon many of the phenomena of this
disease are explicable.


Sexual-Neurasthenia


The state of sexual neurasthenia is in many respects analogous
to that of Graves' disease. In the sexual reflexes, summation leads
to a hyperexcitability by psychic and mechanical stimuli of a
specific type which is analogous to the hyperexcitability in Graves'
disease under trauma and fear; the explanation of both conditions
is based on the laws of the discharge of energy by phylogenetic
association and summation. It would be interesting to observe
the effect of interrupting the nerve impulses from the field of
the sexual receptors by injections of alcohol, or by other agencies,
so as to exclude the associational stimuli until the nervous
mechanism has again become restored to its normal condition.
Interpretation of Some of the Phenomena of Certain Diseases of the
Abdomen in Accordance with the Hypothesis of Phylogenetic Association


The law of phylogenetic association seems to explain many