New observations regarding the auriculotemporal syndrome

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Abstract
Repeated observations of a patient suffering from the auriculotemporal syndrome revealed: a pattern of sweating most easily explained in terms of a centrifugal temporal sequence in the regeneration of fibers in the severed parasympathetic stump and a difference among the involved glands in their degree of hypersensitivity to acetylcholine, the latter being determined by the length of time intervening between denervation and re-innervation. Serial determinations of quantity and electrolyte content of gustatory sweat produced continuously demonstrated that in several respects the involved glands are similar to normal glands in their behavior. The most remarkable indication of altered physiology of these glands was a marked reduction in the capacity to respond to triamcino-lone.

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