Protective Reaction Patterns and Disease

Article1 December 1947PROTECTIVE REACTION PATTERNS AND DISEASEHAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.HAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-27-6-944 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAn ancient awareness of the linkage of feeling and bodily changes is borne to us in the heritage of our language. Applied to the vasomotor system we have such phrases as "red in the face," "hot under the collar," "pale with rage," "being in the pink of condition"; applied to respiration—"takes one's breath away," "sighed heavily with passion," "his nostrils dilated with rage"; applied to perspiration—"went into a cold sweat," "cold hands, warm heart," "he has cold feet," "dripping with suspense"; applied to the gut—"it's a nauseating experience," "it makes me sick," "it turns my stomach," "I can't swallow that"...Bibliography ALMYKERNBERLE TPFBB: Alteration of the function of the colon in man under stress. Presented June, 1947, to the National Gastrointestinal Society, Atlantic City. Google Scholar CANNON WB: Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage, 1929, D. Appleton and Company, New York. CrossrefGoogle Scholar DARWIN C: Expression of the emotions in man and animals, 1872, John Murray, London. 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Google Scholar WOLF S: Diaphragmatic spasm. The mechanism of a common variety of dyspnea, Jr. Clin. Invest., in press. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Presented in part at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Chicago, April 28, 1947, and as the Leo Loeb Lecture at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, April 30, 1947.From the New York Hospital and the Department of Medicine (Neurology) and Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, N. Y. 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