Souques et Harvier Secretory neurosis Névrose sécretaire. „Revue neurology“. 1908 № 10

Abstract

The authors adhere to Babinski's view that the area of hysteria should be narrowed down, singling out all vasomotor and secretory disorders from the group of hysterical phenomena. The authors had to observe a 68-year-old patient suffering from increased sweating, which manifested itself especially sharply during sleep. The patient never had hysterics. seizures, suggestion had no effect on perspiration. The authors make the assumption that sleep is able to cause a change in the composition of the blood and thereby excite the secretory centers in the medulla oblongata.

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