Bennet (Journal, August 25, p. 478) on a case of psychosis associated with adrenal virilism cured by adrenalectomy ten years ago. This confirmation so long after the work of Broster and his team is indeed gratifying. The discovery of the associatioin of such psychosis with virilism and their cure by adrenalectomy is, I think, worth recording. Some twenty years ago Mr. Broster asked me to join his team to do the psychiatric work on patients who suffered from virilism and who seemed to him to be mentally queer. He presented me with a list of 52 patients, some of whom had already had adrenalectomies. Among these I found four who seemed to have suffered from concomitant psychoses, and of them two had apparently re
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