RT Journal
T1 BOdily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage.
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1929
FD December 1
VO 44
IS 6
SP 908
OP 908
DO 10.1001/archinte.1929.00140060123013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1929.00140060123013
AB In this second edition the author presents in the first eleven chapters an entirely logical sequence of the researches of many years on the autonomic system, the nervous control of the suprarenals and the sympathicomimetic function of "adrenin," including the external manifestations in the hair, pupils, etc., the increased blood sugar, the increased muscular blood flow, decreased peristalsis, increased cardiac action, restorative effects on muscular fatigue, increased coagulability of blood and increased number of red cells. In all of the conditions mentioned a close parallelism is shown between the changes occurring during pain, fear, rage and other violent emotions and the similar changes produced by "adrenin" therefore, proving, apparently, that "adrenin" is the producer of such changes normally during emotional excitement.Beginning with the twelfth chapter the author distinguishes clearly between the facts as they are, and they do seem incontrovertible, and the interpretation of the data. To Cannon there