The problem of the muscular activity, normal and abnormal, of the gastro-intestinal tract is one that has intensely engaged the attention of physiologists, roentgenologists and clinicians. The alimentary canal is so linked up with the emotional state of the human being that every profound disturbance in mood, particularly any sudden shock of fear or disagreeable emotion, is associated with marked changes in the activity and tonus of the digestive tube. This set of hollow organs rivals the circulatory system in its relationship to the affective life of man. Abnormal motor activity, especially spasm, is definitely caused by organic disease of the gastrointestinal tract and, too, the gastro-intestinal tract responds by spasm and abnormal motility reflexly to diseases of other structures of the body. It is especially with spasm of functional, organic and reflex type that we have concerned ourselves in this paper. We shall not discuss in detail the physiology
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Abraham Myerson (1936) studied this question.