associated with fear differ from those of joy
or anger. This has been appreciated for a long time but recent
researches have recalled other reactions to us. Reactions in the
internal glands which further knowledge will probably prove to be of
great importance, in fact to form an integral part of the sum of
activities, connect with mental processes. The secretions of the glands
exert an influence on the sensibility and reaction of the organs
connected with psychic phenomena and their functions themselves are
affected by reactions occurring in the nervous system. Revival of a
memory may thus affect the functions of these glands, and the changes
produced in them may react on the sensibility and reactivity of the
nervous mechanisms. If this be so, it will be evident that the organism
works as a whole, that a disturbance of one organ may interfere with the
function of another and that in the repetition of all these influences
we may find an explanation of the chronicity of many of these illnesses.
A study of the activities and interactivities of all the organs of the
body is therefore essential and must be made before we shall understand
the biological significance of mental illness.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 13: See Appendix III, p. 200.]

ADDRESS BY
DR. PIERRE JANET

_The Chairman_: Our country may be hesitating a little--I hope it will
not be for long--in joining a league of nations to prevent war, but
there can be no doubt of our immediate readiness to co-operate
internationally to prevent and reduce disease. Our distinguished guest
from gallant France, Dr. Pierre Janet, professor in the College of
France, evidently feels confident of our sympathy and willingness to
collaborate in this latter respect, for he has ventured across the
ocean, with Madame Janet, in response to our urgent invitation. His
introduction to an audience of American psychiatrists would be quite out
of place. His fame as a pathological psychologist has circled the world.
In the science of medicine he is a modern Titan. For to-day's address he
has chosen as a subject, "THE RELATION OF THE NEUROSES TO THE
PSYCHOSES."

DR. JANET

Mr. President, my dear colleagues, ladies, and gentlemen: The Americans
and the French have met on the battle-fields and they have faced
together the same sufferings for the defense of their common ideal of
civilization and liberty; it is right that they should meet likewise
where Science stands up for the prot