This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...not unlike the vasomotor neuroses so common in neurasthenia. Likewise in the cases of pemphigus, which are so annoying and often so incurable in the tropics, it seems as though a nerve depression must be the cause, as cure follows removal to a cold climate. A very capable physician who has practiced much among ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...not unlike the vasomotor neuroses so common in neurasthenia. Likewise in the cases of pemphigus, which are so annoying and often so incurable in the tropics, it seems as though a nerve depression must be the cause, as cure follows removal to a cold climate. A very capable physician who has practiced much among civilians has informed me that nearly all who have been in the Philippines more than two years have more or less cardiac feebleness which may show itself in insufficiency, palpitation, oedema, dilatation or even complete failure. Hypertrophic hearts of athletes may become dilated in a short time. The vasomotor disturbances from a weakened nervous system are probably also partly responsible for the remarkable menstrual irregularities of American women in the Philippines, a matter which is so common as to be almost the rule. Lombard 16 found that muscular power was markedly lessened in summer by a hot spell of weather. Ocular muscular troubles are quite the rule in the tropics among white men where there is any tendency to abnormality, and presbyopia is apt to be more marked. Grijns 17 found that the reaction time of white men in the tropics was much less than at home, though the Malay was normal in that respect. De Manaceine 18 found that heated rooms reduced our ability to sleep, and this, of course, only accentuates the exhaustion of the tropics 18 Journal of Physiology, 1892. 17 Archiv. fur Anatomie und Physiologie, 1902. ""Sleep." due to other causes. The New York Medical Journal19 very correctly likens tropical exhaustion to the sequela so frequently found after influenza, indeed the two conditions are identical. As far as the writer knows there are no statistics from which we can prove that the blonds of a city suffer from neurasth...
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