Posted by Squiggles on May 17, 2003, at 15:43:14
In reply to Re: PLEASE JOIN PB INFORMAL STUDY ON THYROID!, posted by Kari on May 17, 2003, at 14:49:20
from "Manic Depressive Insanity and Paranoia"
by Emil Kraeplin of Munich (1856-1926), trans. by Barclay, ed. by
Robertson, Prof. at U. of Edinburgh.p. 48
Ch. III - BODILY SYMPTOMS
General State.-- Corresponding to the course of the body-weight
the general state of the patients usually experiences
striking changes. In the hypomanic periods the skin
acquires a fresh colour and tension; the movements
become elastic and vigorous; the scanty hair grows
afresh, even with renewed colour. In states of depression
on the contrary, the skin becomes pale, wrinkled, withered,
dry, rough; the eye becomes dull; the growth of nails
stops and becomes irregular, as Falcida has demonstrated;
the menses become scanty and intermittent; the secretion
of tears dries up; the whole being appears prematurely old.All these changes indicates that in manic-depressive
insanity marked [it] [DISORDERS OF METABOLISM] must
take place.......
p. 50Circulation--... Fairly frequenlty there are found murmurs
of the heart, extension of cardiac dullness, tendency to
congestion, erythemata, great perspiration, dermography.
In manic patients the face is often flushed, .....Not infrequently, one observes indications of
Basedow's phenomena, a soft [caps mine] SWELLING
OF THE THYROID GLAND with accelleration of the pulse,
tremor, and abundant perspiration, now and the also
occasional exophthalmos. Not at all infrequently and
in comparative youth arteriosclerosis is prsent.-----------------
The chapter on physical sympotms is worth reading
if compared to current physiological presentations
in bipolars is studied.Squiggles
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