y adapt themselves in society. To them must be given
a good deal of credit for the suffrage revolution. These unadapted
adrenals, as we may call them, once sowed the seeds, expending their
masculinism in the struggles of the pioneers' martyrdoms, preparing
the harvest their sisters, the more adequate adrenal types, will now
reap. The unadapted adrenals of today will have to look for new worlds
to conquer.

So much for the compensated adrenal types. They are the good workers,
the efficients, the kinetic successes of the driven world. They make,
at a certain level, good slave drivers because they feel within
themselves a driving force. But suppose the adrenal type becomes
uncompensated, or perhaps is inadequate to the demands of life to
start with. Then the story becomes different. The perfect efficient
superman of business or profession begins to lag. Though he is himself
in the morning, he begins to lag in the afternoon. That is when he
tires. In the evening he is all in. More sleep, recreational trips,
vacations slip into the rank of necessities, whereas previously they
had been laughed at as luxuries. More minute or large moles emerge
in the skin, especially if the individual is of a fair type. If a
strenuous effort is not made to give the adrenals an opportunity to
recuperate, or if adjustment on the part of the other glands does not
occur, this stage of intermittent and remittent adrenal inadequacy
gives way in turn to the state of permanent adrenal insufficiency.

The adrenal insufficient is important because he is to be seen
everywhere. Built along the same lines as the adrenal adequate and
apt to be taken for him, he differs and contrasts vividly below the
surface. One may sum him up by saying that he is one variety of
neurasthenic, perhaps the most frequent variety. Cold hands and feet
plague him, cold feet psychically as well as physically, for a chronic
and obsessive indecision is one of his most prominent complaints.
A fatigability, that goes with a low blood pressure, lowered body
temperature and a disturbed ability to utilize sugar for fuel
purposes, is another of his chief complaints. The skin often presents
an instability of the blood vessels, so that they now react to
stroking with a blanched instead of a reddened effect. Irritability,
a liability to go off the handle at the slightest provocation, and a
consequent complete exhaustion that, after an outburst, sends him to
bed, is conspicuous. Dismissed