NEUROGENIC FACTORS IN CONTACT DERMATITIS
- 1 July 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 66 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1952.01530260004001
Abstract
THE INFLUENCE of the nervous system on disease has been the subject of close attention in recent years, particularly that of the portion of the nervous system involved in emotion or the affect of the human being. Such influence has long been accepted in the so-called functional disorders, but the emotions have recently been implicated in many organic diseases as well. Peptic ulcer, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, obesity, and other diseases involving actual structural changes are thought to be truly psychosomatic in origin by many writers. For years dermatologists have recognized the role of nervous and emotional factors in several common dermatoses. In 1891 Brocq and Jacquet1 coined the term neurodermite for a common chronic dermatitis hitherto designated as one of the forms of eczema. Among the many observers who have since written extensively about the effect of emotional and nervous states on the skin, the Americans Stokes,2Keywords
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