The internal secretions and the nervous system / by M. Laignel-Lavastine.

  • Laignel-Lavastine, M. (Maxime), 1875-1953.
Date:
1919
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Credit: The internal secretions and the nervous system / by M. Laignel-Lavastine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glion, are for the most part®> chromaffin organs, and in this respect pertain to the suprarenal sympathetic system. Their disturbances, from the standpoint of nervous echoes, have not, as far as I know at the present time, recognized aspects which are peculiar to them- selves. | 6. Pancreas Diabetes mellitus: glycosuria, polyuria, polyphagia, polydipsia, neuralgias, pruritus, impotence, constipation, scant salivation, scant perspiration, dry skin, testicular atrophy, amenorrhea, loss of tendon reflexes, increased arterial tension, asthenia, headaches, lessened resistance to cold, perforating ulcer, syncopes, attacks of apoplecti- form coma, paralyses, vertigoes, asthmatic dyspnea, pseudo-an- gina pectoris, sommolent disorders of sleep, depression, apathy, hy- pochondria, coma. 7. Pituitary 1. Froelich’s dystrophia adiposo-genitalis syndrome: Adiposity, arrest of development or retrogression of the genital glands, geni- tal organs and the secondary sexual characteristics corresponding thereto; somnolence. 2. Renon and Delile’s®® syndrome of pitwtary imsufficiency: Tachycardia, instability of the pulse, lessened arterial tension, in- somnia, anorexia, painful sensations of heat, increase in the secre- tion of perspiration. 3. Acromegaly: “ Marked hypertrophy, not congenital, of the upper and lower extremities and of ‘the head,” pain in the head, amenorrhea, tendinous reflexes never exaggerated, arrhythmia, syn- . cope, sweats, polyuria, glycosuria, lessened resistance to cold, neuralgias, acroparesthesias, cramps, lancinating pains, lassitude, irritability, sadness. 4. Giantism: “ Acromegaly in individuals in whom the epiphyseal cartilages are not yet ossified,” impotence, amenorrhea, effeminacy, puerility, aboulia, asthenia, glycosuria, polyuria. 5. Diabetes insipidus (???) 3 Polyuria, polydipsia. 55 Voir sur ce point les réserves de N. Pende, Patologia de l’apparecchio surrenale, Milan, 1909; de C. Frugoni. La gl. carotidienne possède-t-elle une sécrét. int. propre? Sem. méd., 9 oct., 1912, p. 481; de Lanzillotta, Archiv. de Fisiologia, 1 sept., 1913; et de Laignel-Lavastine, Pathologie du sympathetique (sous presse). 56 Rénon et Delille, Congr. de méd., act., 1907, et Delille Thèse, 1909. 577] tiendrait à un trouble du lobe intermédiare de l’hypophyse et de Vinfundibulum. Harvey Cushing, The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders, Lip- pincott Co., Philadelphia et Londres, 1912; mais Camus et Roussy, Soc. de biol., 1914, passim, l’ont reproduit expérimentalement par lésions de la sub- stance grise du tuber cinereum au voismage de l’infundibulum. Il desire chez le chien tout rôle à l’hypophyse dans la détermination du diabète insidipe, Presse méd., 8 juill., 1914, pp. 517-521.