The Montreal Medical Journal, Vol. 35

Excerpt from The Montreal Medical Journal, Vol. 35: March, 1906 Trousseau, in his Lectures on Clinical Medicine, recalls the famous experiments of Claude Bernard, to show the intimate connexion between the żoor of the fourth ventricle, and the development of glycosuria; and that between other cerebral areas, and polyuria, or albuminuria. He also points out how neuralgia excites the secretions of neighbouring glands; how the passions and intellectual engrossments affect secre tion; how mental disturbance will increase micturition; anger modify' -the lacteal secretion; fear produce diarrhoea; and he impresses the fact that the whole digestive system, including the liver and pancreas, may be affected by the mind. Graves, 'too, in his Clinical Lectures on the Practice of Medicine, enforces the importance of what he terms the power of moral impreso sions, in aiding the cure of disease. Sir James Paget, in his Lectures on Surgical Pathology, directs special attention to the effect of mind on nutrition, and says, There is scarcely an organ, the nutrition of which may not be affected by the mind. He cites a very telling case of a patient who consulted him about a tumour in her breast, which she believed to be a cancer. Paget boldly assured her that it was not malignant, and further, that it would speedily disappear. The latter portion of his statement he hardly expected to see fulfilled, but he reports, with apparent surprise, that it began to shrink immediately, without either internal or external thera peutie treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.