THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENT OF THE ULCER SUSCEPTIBLE CONSTITUTION
Authors: George Draper
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 April 1942THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENT OF THE ULCER SUSCEPTIBLE CONSTITUTIONGEORGE DRAPER, M.D.GEORGE DRAPER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-16-4-633 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe concept of the human constitution in relation to disease held in this clinic has sought to envisage the individual human being as an organismal entity built of multiple components. The latter have been grouped in the four categories of morphology, physiology, immunity and psychology, and the qualities representing each panel have been studied by whatever dependable methods were available. So far as subjects of gastric and duodenal ulcer are concerned, anthropometric technics1have supported the earlier clinical belief that sufferers from that ailment belonged, within variable limits, to the linear division of mankind. Moreover, in the physiological panel of...Bibliography1. DRAPERTOURAINE GGA: The man-environment unit and peptic ulcer, Arch. Int. Med., 1932, xlix, 616. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. DRAPERBRUENNDUPERTUIS GHGCW: Changes in the electrocardiogram as criteria of individual constitution derived from its physiological panel, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1937, cxciv, 514-523. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. DRAPER G: The mosaic of androgyny, New England Jr. Med., 1941, ccxxv, 393. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. CANNON WB: The influence of emotional states on the function of the alimentary canal, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1909, cxxxvii, 480. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. PAYNENEWMAN RTC: Interim report on dyspepsia in the Army, Brit. Med. Jr., 1940, ii, 819. Google Scholar6. HUTCHINSON JH: Incidence of dyspepsia in a military hospital, Brit. Med. Jr., 1941, ii, 78. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. SPILLANE JD: Dyspepsia in the Army (Letter to the Editor), Brit. Med. Jr., 1941, i, 1933. Google Scholar8. HARTFALL SJ: Dyspepsia in the Army (Letter to the Editor), Lancet, 1941, i, 124. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. SCHILDER P: The image and appearance of the human body, 1935, Kegan Paul, London. Google Scholar10. COGHILL GE: Anatomy and the problem of behavior, 1929, Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar11. BRUCH H: Obesity in childhood and personality development, Am. Jr. Orthopsychiatry, 1941, xi, 467. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. SOUTHERLAND DD: Survey of 100 cases of war neuroses, Brit. Med. Jr., 1941, ii, 365. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. MEULENGRACHT E: Behandlung von Hematemesis und Melena mit uneingeschränkter Kot, Wein. klin. Wchnschr., 1936, xlix, 1481. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication November 21, 1941.This work was done under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.The author is greatly indebted to Dr. Dana W. Atchley, Dr. John L. Caughey, Jr., and Dr. C. Wesley Dupertius for many helpful suggestions. Nextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited by‘The gut war’Organic and psychosocial risk factors for duodenal ulcerSulpiride Specifically Attenuates Psychological Stress-Induced Gastric Lesions in RodentsGastric lesions produced by conditioned emotional stimuli in the form of affective communication and effects of benzodiazepinesDuodenal ulcer in army trainees during basic military trainingMagenBIBLIOGRAPHYTHE ROLE OF NERVOUS FACTORS IN THE CAUSATION OF PEPTIC ULCERATIONPHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES DURING CHRONIC FEARThe Effect of Psychoanalysis on the Course of Peptic Ulcer: A Preliminary ReportGastric Ulcer in the Preschool Child 1 April 1942Volume 16, Issue 4Page: 633-658KeywordsDuodenal ulcersEmotionsImmunityPsychologyUlcers ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 April 1942 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright, 1942, by The American College of PhysiciansPDF downloadLoading ...