AN ETIOLOGY OF SCLERODERMA

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Abstract
Evidence collated from a clinical and psychologic study of several patients supports the belief that scleroderma, like Raynaud''s disease, is a manifestation and the result of a psychosomatic disturbance with a definite pattern. A feeling of insecurity is characteristic of the patients. If and when security is re-established by chance or design, the process is reversed and the complicating thrombotic manifestations become amenable to vasodilating therapy. To attempt such therapy without first re-establishing security is to court failure.
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