Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage : an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement / by Walter B. Cannon.

  • Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945.
Date:
1929
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    Erythrocytes: stored in spleen, 179; increased by emotional excitement, 182-184; small, liberated in excitement, 184- 185, not increased by excite¬ ment after upper abdominal sympathectomy, 186, nor when liver alone innervated, 187; oc¬ casionally increased after spleen denervated, 188-190; value of increased number of, 209-210. Fatigue: of muscle, 82; muscular, lessened by splanchnic stimu¬ lation, 87-90; as affected by in¬ crease of arterial pressure, 96- 99; by decrease of arterial pressure, 100-101; irritability of muscle in, increased by splanch¬ nic stimulation, 98; explanation of effects of varied arterial pressure on, 101-103; lessens neuromuscular irritability, 112- 115, 118; effect of, on curarized muscle, 128; utility of adrenin in lessening effects of, 129, 203- 204; cessation of hunger con¬ tractions in, 294. Fear: anticipatory character of, 195-196; associated with action, 197; explanation of paralyzing effect of, 197 (note); energizing influence of, 226-227; disturb¬ ance of digestion by, 253-254; dries mouth and induces thirst, 325-326; relation to rage, 341; bodily changes in, like those of rage, 342-343; importance of, as a fighting emotion, 378. Fever: absence of hunger in, 278, 294; bodily changes in, may cause emotion, 351. Fighting emotions: bodily changes in, like those in com¬ petitive sports, 219-221, 387; anger and fear as, 377; impor- Fighting emotions (continued) tance of, 378; satisfactions for, in competitive sports, 391. Food: effect of sight and smell of, on gastric secretion, 5. Football: glycosuria in players of, 74, 231; relation of excite¬ ment and power in, 229-231. Frenzy: endurance in, 232-234. Functional derangements: due to emotions, 253-257; explanation of, 258-261; physiological em¬ phasis on, 261-263; suggestions for treatment of, 263-265. Ganglia: autonomic, 22. Gastric glands: turgescence of, not the cause of hunger sensation, 283-285. Gastric juice: psychic secretion of, 4-7, 10; importance of, for intestinal digestion, 6; flow of, inhibited by excitement, 10-11, and by pain, 17. Generative organs: innervation of, 30-31; effects of strong emo¬ tions on activities in, 337-338. Glycosuria: in pain, 68-69; in emotion, 69-71; after football, 74, 231; after examinations, 74; dependence of, on adrenal glands, 75-77. Heart: innervation of, 24, 27; de¬ nervated, as an indicator of adrenal secretion, 46, 61; use of sugar by, 200; stimulated by adrenin, 200, 207; acceleration of, important for muscular effi¬ ciency, 208; “disorderly action of,” due to conditioned excite¬ ment, 254-255. Hunger: compared with appetite, 269-271; description of, 270- 272; theories of, 272; as a gen¬ eral sensation, 272; disappear-