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 the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content of the blood."--Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist--. in the Illinois Medical Journal last week. What, then, was more simple, if highly hazardous, than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow up the production of hormones by those glands? Dr. Hutton, who has cured inmates of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin of dementia praecox and melancholia by means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does no better than control diabetes, as insulin does, the patient would still be better off because he would be free of the inconvenience of constant hypodermic medication."

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