Medicine: X-rays for Diabetes

"It is our idea that both diabetes and high blood pressure, instead of deficiency diseases, are actually the result of too much activity by the pituitary and adrenals, with the pituitary gland probably the worst offender of the two. It is also our idea that carbohydrate metabolism is controlled by a balanced mechanism consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in...

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