Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry.

  • Jamieson Boyd Hurry
Date:
1913
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Credit: Vicious circles in disease / by Jamieson B. Hurry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blushing. Another Circle is associated with blushing—a vaso-motor disorder provoked by emo¬ tional disturbance and showing itself by dilatation of the blood-vessels of the skin. It is especially common in nervous, self-conscious women. The more self- conscious, the more they blush. The harder they try to avoid blushing the worse they suffer. IV.—CIRCLES ASSOCIATED WITH HAIR, NAILS, SEBACEOUS AND SWEAT GLANDS (a)—THE HAIR Several Circles involving the hair (e.g. pediculosis, ringworm) have been already alluded to under parasitic disorders and need not be further dealt with. Trichiasis. Abnormal arrangement of the eye¬ lashes, known as trichiasis, may sometimes create correlations owing to secondary keratitis and blepharospasm : “ The corneal inflammation causes great pain with photophobia and lacrymation, owing to which the patient keeps his eyes convulsively closed (blepharospasm), and by so doing causes a still greater approximation of the incurved lashes to the cornea, and establishes a Vicious Circle.” 1 Baldness. According to some writers baldness may be dependent upon reciprocally acting factors. Owing to the fashion of keeping the head covered, and of thus depriving the hair of sun, air and nourish- 1 Lawson, Diseases and Injuries of the Eye, p. 459.