MIND OR GLANDS?
Sir,-It is evident from your article referring to Frank Sinatra that there are crowds of hysterical women in the U.S.A. Orson Welles could put the fear of death into them by a voice over the radio, then a large proportion of the general public must also be excitable and emotional. But exactly the same . results have been seen at religious revival meetings, or similar gatherings, Women have been seen to throw themselves on the floor, kick their feet in the air and scream out to God to save them. What I am surprised at is the information that the psychiatrists are baffled, as usually they have an explanation for everything. The general conclusion is that this state of hysteria has something originally to do with the mind, which the psychiatrist claims to know all about. But I think the trouble is deeper and perhaps the science of endocrinology has the explanation we require. The difference between a person who is morbidly emotional and one under proper control, is usually just a question of the proper supply of adrenalin discharged into the blood stream. We have it on good authority that the endocrine glands control appearances, impulses, fears and general behaviour. A person of normal intelligence may differ from an idiot because his thyroid gland gives him two milligrams more iodine every day.
ARGOSY
(Te Awamutu).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 232, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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228MIND OR GLANDS? New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 232, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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