Flatulence and shock / by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Crookshank, F. G. (Francis Graham), 1873-1933.
Date:
1913
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Flatulence and shock / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    5/54
    PREFACE I HAVE been asked that these two papers should be printed, rather, I suspect, for the sake of the bibhography—such as it is—than for any other reason. Still, I confess to surprise at the interest that has been evoked, and have been almost startled at the really large number of isolated facts, bearing on the subjects discussed, that have been brought to one's notice. Thus Dr. Spilsbury, who tells me that he has not always found the coeliac axis degenerate when there has been pretty widespread arterio-sclerosis, says that nevertheless in such cases there is often marked hypertrophy of the muscular coat of the vessel. The relevancy of this point to the sugges- tion of spasm and excessive adrenalism is obvious. In respect of the second paper, during discussion both Sir John Tweedy and Dr. F. J. Smith narrated some cases that were very a propos, and I have heard since of many others. Mr. Roland Burrows, himself a lawyer, raised the interesting point whether indeed the neurasthenia of twentieth-century males may not be a consequence of repression, and whether the emotional displays of our eighteenth-century heroes and statesmen—^who lived in shocking times—may not have been physiologically justified. Such suggestions give an even wider significance to the Freudian doctrines. The comments of the anaesthetists are very interesting. The declaration by not a few that surgical shock is very often a matter of overdeep anaesthesia seems based on sound clinical observation, and should be correlated with Verwom's masterly elucidation of the phenomena of narcosis. Again, it is impossible to ignore the theoretical importance of the marked success that Dr. H. M. Page and others have enjoyed with the prolonged administration of nitrous oxide