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Show GLAND FAKERS. Beware of patent medicine fakers -who. cashing in on the public's inter-Ijl-il st In monkey plands, are flooding tho market with pills and liquid dopes heralded as marvelous glandular "cures." The arrival of these parasites was to be expected Every new discovery is trailed by a mob of unscrunulouu fakers who fat-jNl'.jj fat-jNl'.jj ten on public credulit. Thirty-three years ago the original gland doctor, Brown-Scquard, wad ridiculed rid-iculed when he came forth with his ihcories about restoring lost youth jl jjtl .and stimulating mentality through the "use of endocrine glands Today legitimate scientists admit iiiat Brown-Sequard was on the right trail. Wonderful possibilities are pened up. But the public should remember that tinkering with the body's endocrine Oands Is in its infancy and that the ') u ireatment Is extreuiel dangerous un-h'SB un-h'SB administered by a medical man -killed in hi3 line. A great deal Is already deflnitel) known about the thyroid gland in the neck Us partial control of intellect and its riffect on iho general health, particularly heart, nerves and hair. But thyroid treatment is dangerous except in the hands of a skilled physl-( physl-( :an. For instance, calming down an over-active thyroid is opt to leave the heart weak. Of the other glands, much less Is known. Their general functions have ; m lj en defined. But there are few ven among experienced doctors who can stimulate or calm theso other glands without definite perils to tho patient. In the hands of a quack, the endo- l ine glands arc apt to become doors hading to physical breakdown, nervous ner-vous collapse or downright insanity, |