The biology of the internal secretions : the endocrine factor in development, in subnormalities, in neoplasms and malignancy, in nervous and mental diseases and in heredity / by Francis X. Dercum.

  • Dercum, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931.
Date:
1924
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Credit: The biology of the internal secretions : the endocrine factor in development, in subnormalities, in neoplasms and malignancy, in nervous and mental diseases and in heredity / by Francis X. Dercum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE XVIII. The Endocrine Factor in Nervous and Mental Diseases. 162 The material of the clinic. Cases especially featured by the dominance of one gland; by two or more. Cases less individ¬ ualized but still classifiable; finally cases of endocrine involve¬ ment without gross abnormalities. Biological factors present. Relations to efficiency of the organism. Nervous disorders. Ready fatigue, neurasthenia; the chromaffin system, the thy¬ roid, the pituitary; the symptoms presented by the autonomic group. Psychasthenia; its endocrine and biological features. Endocrine factors in idiocy and feeble-mindedness. The im¬ becile. XIX. The Mental Deteriorations. 174 The biology, morphology, and endocrine factors in the mental deteriorations of early and adult life; dementia praecox and the paranoid dementias. XX. The Endocrine Factors in Manic-depressive Disease. . 188 The morphological basis for the delusions of introspection in melancholia. The morphological basis for the delusions of ref¬ erence to the external world in the paranoid states. Rationale of the endocrine reactions in melancholia and mania. The endocrine factors in mental disorders excited by infections, traumata, and other noxious influences. The biological resist¬ ance of the individual. XXI. Neuropathy and the Problem of Heredity. 206 What is meant by “neuropathy.” Neuropathy and heredity. Causes of “weakness” in the germ plasm. Germ plasm and heredity. Jaeger. General facts. Sex cells. Weismann and Weismannism. Objections. Nature and role of the germ plasm. Influence of endocrine function. Why given acquired charac¬ ters are transmitted and why others are not transmitted. Mendelism and its significance. Index 227