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WILLIAM B. GUY, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(1):1-8.

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THE INFLUENCE of the nervous system on disease has been the subject of close attention in recent years, particularly that of the portion of the nervous system involved in emotion or the affect of the human being. Such influence has long been accepted in the so-called functional disorders, but the emotions have recently been implicated in many organic diseases as well. Peptic ulcer, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, obesity, and other diseases involving actual structural changes are thought to be truly psychosomatic in origin by many writers.

For years dermatologists have recognized the role of nervous and emotional factors in several common dermatoses. In 1891 Brocq and Jacquet¹ coined the term neurodermite for a common chronic dermatitis hitherto designated as one of the forms of eczema. Among the many observers who have since written extensively about the effect of emotional and nervous states on the skin, the Americans Stokes,² . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
With the Technical Assistance of Miss Ruth Mingonet PITTSBURGH

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology and the Addison Gibson Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the One Hundredth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 13, 1951.

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