THE ALARM REACTION AND THE DISEASES OF ADAPTATION
Authors: H SELYE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 September 1948THE ALARM REACTION AND THE DISEASES OF ADAPTATIONHANS SELYE, M.D., Ph.D., D.SC., F.R.S.(C)HANS SELYE, M.D., Ph.D., D.SC., F.R.S.(C)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-3-403 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn a lecture such as this it would be impossible to review the rather voluminous literature on the adaptation syndrome and the diseases of adaptation, but this is hardly necessary in any case because several extensive surveys of this field have been published in recent years (Albright, 1942-43; Albright, 1943; De La Balze, 1946; Cannon, 1932; Crile and Lower, 1915; Ingle, 1942; Laflaquière, 1942; Leblond, 1939; Maître, 1942; Overbeek, 1947; Selye, 1940; Selye, 1941; Selye, 1944; Selye, 1946; Sundstroem and Michaels, 1942; Tepperman, Engel and Long, 1943; Varangot, 1940).Since apparently one of the most important diseases of adaptation is...Bibliography ALBRIGHT F: Cushing's syndrome. 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