The neurotic theory of pyrexia / by W. Hale White.

  • William Hale-White
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[1886]
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    altered tissue change that goes on in muscle is due to the fact that more blood is brought to the muscle owing to some special muscular vaso-motor change, or whether the change is due to genuine calorific nerves ending in the muscle, is a question very C. Inhibitory centre in the brain, probably near the fissure of Rolando, which exercises a restraining influence on the thermogenesis of the body. H. Fibres proceeding down the cord to the muscles, and conveying the restraining influences from the centre C. I. Fibres ascending to the brain centre, which is capable of being affected by their stimulation. M. Muscle, the thermo- genetic tissue. difficult to decide. The probability is that the cerebral centre is not muscular vaso-motor, but a genuine calorific one, for stimulation of a nerve going to a part will cause a rise of temperature even if the blood supply be cut off. Also Wood1 1 H. C. Wood, “Fever,” Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 357, Philadelphia, 1880.
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