Visceral angioneuroses : (the visceral crises of vasomotor ataxia) / by Solomon Solis Cohen.

  • Solis-Cohen, Solomon, 1857-1948.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Visceral angioneuroses : (the visceral crises of vasomotor ataxia) / by Solomon Solis Cohen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    absolute. As I have previously pointed out concern- ing Graves’s syndrome and Raynaud’s syndrome, with their connecting links, so also among the more, distinctly visceral types of .angioneurosis, do there exist intermediate cases of many kinds and grades. It is partly for this reason that confusion still pre- vails in our nomenclature, and that while some physicians recognize as instances of vasomotor dis- order only those which are accompanied with struc- tural changes and functional perversions so obvious, and of such high degree, that they cannot well be ignored, others refuse to admit within the category of angioneuroses these very cases. Accurate classi- fication and appropriate nomenclature waits upon physiological as well as pathological discovery, not only in the domain of the nervous system, but also in that of the body chemistry, and especially that of the hormones.’ Also, there remain to be solved certain questions in relation to individual syndrome groups, such as the presence or absence of infectious or toxic agents, and the identification of these, if present; the iden- tification of the products of perverse metabolism or of increased or diminished secretory activity as- sociated with the various symptoms, causally, inci- dentally, or sequentially; and the possible associa- tion of definite morphological or chemical tissue changes with definite clinical phenomena. Mean- while, the clinical phenomena deserve more atten- tion than they ordinarily receive—for they are not rare, but common; not infrequent angels, but al- most daily visitors. Herz distinguishes three types: (i) (Angio)- spastic, (2) (angio)ectatic, and (3) mixed; or, as I originally expressed it, syndromes dependent “The encyclopedic studies of Sa.ious (Internal Secretions. Phila- delphia, 1903, 1907) well exhibit the vast extent and great im- portance of this field.