THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM TO GENERAL MEDICINE
Authors: Thomas P. Sprunt
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 August 1933THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM TO GENERAL MEDICINETHOMAS P. SPRUNT, M.D., F.A.C.P.THOMAS P. SPRUNT, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-7-2-257 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptProfessor Cannon has clearly and concisely outlined the marvelous biological mechanisms by which the fluid matrix of the body is preserved in healthful equilibrium and by which its remarkable reserve forces are mobilized and made available for extraordinary activities. The autonomic nervous system is among the most important mechanisms in the preservation of this homeostasis that Cannon has poetically dubbed the wisdom of the body. One might, then, readily expect that this system would play an equally important rôle in the manifestations of the folly or of the unhappiness of the body that constitutes disease.As in the preservation of...Selected References BARBOURMARSHALL HGHT: Heat regulation and water exchange; underlying mechanism of fever as illustrated by cocaine poisoned rabbits, Jr. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1931, xliii, 147-162. Google Scholar BEATTIE J: Hypothalamic mechanisms, Canad. Med. Assoc. Jr., 1932, xxvi, 400-405. Google Scholar CANNON WB: Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage, 2d Ed., 1929, D. Appleton and Co., New York and London. CrossrefGoogle Scholar CANNON WB: The wisdom of the body, 1932, W. W. Norton and Co., New York. CrossrefGoogle Scholar CAPPSCOLEMAN JAGH: An experimental and clinical study of pain in the pleura, pericardium and peritoneum, 1932, Macmillan Co., N. Y. Google Scholar CARLSON AJ: The secretion of gastric juice in health and disease, Physiol. Rev., 1923, iii, 1-40. CrossrefGoogle Scholar CUSHING H: Reaction to posterior pituitary extract (pituitrin) when introduced into cerebral ventricles, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1931, xvii, 163-170; 239-247. CrossrefGoogle Scholar CUSHING H: Neuro-hypophyseal mechanisms from a clinical standpoint, Lancet, 1930, ii, 119; 175. CrossrefGoogle Scholar DANIELOPOLU D: Action des anesthésiques sur les syndromes paroxystiques qui se produisent par l'intermédiaire du système nerveux végétatif et sur la disparition de ces syndromes pendant les affections fébriles, Bull. et mém. Soc. méd. d. hôp. de Paris, 1931, xlvii, 324-332. Google Scholar EMERSON CP: The importance of the emotions in the etiology and prognosis of disease, Bull. N. Y. Acad. Med., 1929, v, 985-1004. Google Scholar HOLMES G: The Goulstonian Lectures on spinal injuries of warfare, Brit. Med. Jr., 1915, ii, 769; 815; 855. CrossrefGoogle Scholar INGVAR S: Über nervöse Organkrankheiten, Acta med. Scandinav., 1931, lxxv, 541-562. Google Scholar JOSEFSON A: Zerebrale Magersucht, Acta med. Scandinav., 1931, lxxv, 507-522. Google Scholar KATZENELBOGEN S: Somatic disorders of functional origin, ANN. INT. MED., 1932, v, 1017-1021. Google Scholar KUNTZ A: The autonomic nervous system, 1929, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia. Google Scholar LIGHTBISHOPKENDALL RUCCLG: The response of the rabbit to pilocarpine administered into the cerebrospinal fluid, Jr. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1933, xlvii, 37. Google Scholar LIGHTBYSSHE RUSM: The administration of drugs into the cerebral ventricles of monkeys: pituitrin, certain pituitary fractions, pitressin, pitocin, histamine, acetylcholine and pilocarpine, Jr. Pharmacol. and Exper. Therap., 1933, xlvii, 17. Google Scholar POPAFIELDING GTU: Vascular link between pituitary and hypothalamus, Lancet, 1930, ii, 238-240. CrossrefGoogle Scholar POTTENGER FM: Symptoms of visceral disease, 4th Ed., 1930, C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis. CrossrefGoogle Scholar RILEY HA: Migraine, Bull. Neurol. Inst. N. Y., 1932, ii, 429-544. Google Scholar STRAUSSGLOBUS IJH: Tumor of brain with disturbance in temperature regulation; hypothalamus and area about the third ventricle as possible site for a heat-regulating center; report of 3 cases, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1931, xxv, 506-522. CrossrefGoogle Scholar TALBOT FB: Skin temperatures of children, Am. Jr. Dis. Children, 1931, xlii, 965-1052. Google Scholar ZIEGLERLEVINE LHBS: The influence of emotional reactions on basal metabolism, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1925, clxix, 68-76. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Baltimore, Md.*Read before the American College of Physicians, Montreal, February 9, 1933. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 August 1933Volume 7, Issue 2Page: 257-265KeywordsAutonomic nervous systemBody fluids ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1933 PDF downloadLoading ...