Physiology
IN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the volumes previously published[*] and as a preface to monographs now in preparation.
IN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the volumes previously published[*] and as a preface to...
2. Chapter 2Because it is such a commonplace observation, one scarcely realizes the importance of the fact that clean-cut wounds inflicted by a razor-like knife cause the least reaction, wh...
3. Chapter 3Upon this hypothesis a new principle in operative surgery is founded, _i. e_., operation during the state of _anoci-association_. Assuming that no unfavorable effect is produced...
4. Chapter 4The following are the principal points presented: In operations under inhalation anesthesia the nerve impulses from the trauma reach every part of the brain--the cerebrum that i...
5. Chapter 5Figures 12 and 16 show the resemblance between the outward appearances of a patient with Graves' disease and of a person obsessed by fear. Fear and Graves' disease have the foll...
6. Chapter 6{illust. caption = FIG. 25.--FEAR AND AGONY. "Amid this dread exuberance of woe ran naked spirits wing'd with horrid fear."-- Dante's "Inferno," Canto XXIV, lines 89, 90. all th...
7. Chapter 7If this be true, then these patients should exhibit behavior precisely contrary to that of those suffering from acute infection, that is, they should be constantly clearing thei...
8. Chapter 8The response to contact stimuli then depends always on the presence of nociceptors in the affected part of the body and to the type of the contact. Powerful response is made to...
9. Chapter 9We have stated that when a number of contact stimuli act simultaneously, the strongest stimulus will gain possession of the final common path-- the path of action. When, however...
10. Chapter 10This whole train of deleterious results of body activation without action may be best observed and studied in that most emotional of diseases--exophthalmic goiter. In this disea...
11. Chapter 11The injection of adrenalin causes striking brain-cell changes: first, a hyperchromatism, then a chromatolysis. Now if adrenalin caused these changes merely as a metabolic phenom...
12. Chapter 12We have stated that in acute Graves' disease there is a tendency to the production of spontaneous fever, and that there is a magnified diurnal variation in temperature which is...
13. Chapter 13Certain clinical phenomena are clarified by this theory and serve to substantiate it. For example, it is well known that inhalation anesthesia precipitates the impending acidosi...