A statistical study of the relations of neurasthenic, dyspeptic, and allergic symptoms
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description: Individual or case examinations of the neurasthenic individual almost invariably yield a certain number of physiological symptoms of disorder in addition to the recognized mental and emotional troubles. It is quite likely, for instance, that the neurasthenic's digestion will be upset in various so-called "functional" ways, which, even though no respectable ulcer or other organic lesion be found, are quite as real and objective and distressful to the patient as any other class of symptoms. It is also likely, according to the writer's observations, that he will manifest any number of another class of symptoms which, no matter whether they be produced by reflex nervous mechanisms, or directly by a mild and modified anaphylactic reaction to some foreign protein, may be placed under the general category of "allergic" or hypersensitive disease symptoms. A simple definition of "allergy" at this stage is not very enlightening, for a full picture of all its varied manifestations is requisite to do it justice. Its generality and variability of symptoms make a formal definition empty. It is defined by the American Medical Dictionary as "a condition of unusual or exaggerated, specific susceptibility to a substance which is harmless in similar amounts for the majority of members of the same species." Von Pirquet, who introduced the term in 1913, defines it as "the change in reaction capacity which follows in animals or man after recovery from disease or after treatment with foreign substances." It is manifested in the symptoms of that group of diseases which includes hay fever, asthma, catarrh, migraine, urticaria, eczema, etc., and is thought of as the underlying physiological reaction causing these diseases. It is the writer's observation that neurasthenic individuals are likely to manifest a number of the physiological symptoms of this disease. One subject, for instance, who is failing in four-fifths of his courses in college because of easy fatigability, inability to concent…
abstract: Individual or case examinations of the neurasthenic individual almost invariably yield a certain number of physiological symptoms of disorder in addition to the recognized mental and emotional troubles. It is quite likely, for instance, that the neurasthenic's digestion will be upset in various so-called "functional" ways, which, even though no respectable ulcer or other organic lesion be found, are quite as real and objective and distressful to the patient as any other class of symptoms. It is also likely, according to the writer's observations, that he will manifest any number of another class of symptoms which, no matter whether they be produced by reflex nervous mechanisms, or directly by a mild and modified anaphylactic reaction to some foreign protein, may be placed under the general category of "allergic" or hypersensitive disease symptoms. A simple definition of "allergy" at this stage is not very enlightening, for a full picture of all its varied manifestations is requisite to do it justice. Its generality and variability of symptoms make a formal definition empty. It is defined by the American Medical Dictionary as "a condition of unusual or exaggerated, specific susceptibility to a substance which is harmless in similar amounts for the majority of members of the same species." Von Pirquet, who introduced the term in 1913, defines it as "the change in reaction capacity which follows in animals or man after recovery from disease or after treatment with foreign substances." It is manifested in the symptoms of that group of diseases which includes hay fever, asthma, catarrh, migraine, urticaria, eczema, etc., and is thought of as the underlying physiological reaction causing these diseases. It is the writer's observation that neurasthenic individuals are likely to manifest a number of the physiological symptoms of this disease. One subject, for instance, who is failing in four-fifths of his courses in college because of easy fatigability, inability to concent…
author: Kling, Carlos Prado
language: eng
keywords: Neurasthenia, Indigestion, Allergy, Symptoms, Statistics, Correlation, Symptomatology, Neurasthenic, Dyspeptic, Allergic, Symptom correlation
date published: 1932
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:00:56Z
provider: University of Texas
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Texas at Austin

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value: https://hdl.handle.net/2152/121264

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property ID: DOI
value: 10.26153/tsw/48092