THE NOSE
An Experimental Study of Reactions
Within the Nose in Human Subjects
During Varying Life Experiences
By
THOMAS H. HOLMES, M.D.
Lester N. Hofheimer Research Fellow in Medicine
HELEN GOODELL, B.S.
Research Fellow in Medicine
STEWART WOLF, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
HAROLD G. WOLFF, M.D.
Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
Cornell University Medical College
New York, New York
With a FOREWORD by
WARFIELD T. LONGCOPE, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore, Maryland
CHARLES C THOMAS ? PUBLISHER
Springfield Illinois U.S.A.
Hard cover book, 1st edition, 1950, 154 pages including Index, many line drawings.
From the Preface: ?The purpose of this monograph is to report and interpret results of an experimental study of disturbances in nasal and respiratory physiology occurring in response to a variety of situational threats. The relevance of these changes to discomfort and disease will be discussed.
Otolaryngologists have long been aware that disturbances in nasal function accompany certain emotional states characterized by anxiety and conflict. The settings and attitudes of the patients have not been defined in detail, however. Neither have they been correlated fully with the alterations in nasal function. Psychiatrists, on the other hand, have also interested themselves in disturbances of the nose. They have correlated nasal dysfunction with problems of personality adjustment and have imputed to the disturbances special symbolic meaning, usually without adequate enquiry into the nature and physiologic mechanisms of the bodily changes. In this book an attempt is made to study the man and his nose at once as a unit, thus integrating these points of view for the better understanding of the human organism.
The first fruit of this approach was the discovery that changes in the nose in response to environmental stimuli rarely occur alone. Rather do they characteristically constitute a part of a broader biologic pattern of reaction which includes as well changes in function of deeper respiratory passages. In addition, other bodily structures in the head and even more distant organ systems are often implicated.
Thereupon experiments were designed to elucidate the mechanisms and biological significance of the patterns of disordered bodily function which involve the nose. It is to be hoped that these data will add some¿½thing to the knowledge and concepts out of which we must fashion our understanding of disease as an attempt of man to adjust to the hostile elements of his environment.?
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD
PREFACE
- REVIEW OF NASAL PHYSIOLOGY; OBJECTIVE AND METHOD OF PRESENT STUDY
- RANGE OF NASAL FUNCTIONS IN NORMAL SUBJECTS
- ALTERATIONS IN NASAL FUNCTION FOLLOWING SPECIFIC THREATS TO RESPIRATORY APPARATUS
- ALTERATIONS IN NASAL FUNCTION FOLLOWING GENERAL THREATS TO BODILY INTEGRITY
- RELATION OF NASAL CHANGES TO BODILY DISTURB¿½ANCES INVOLVING THE EYES AND DEEPER RESPIRA¿½TORY STRUCTURES
- PERSONALITY AND BACKGROUND OF AN INTENSIVE¿½LY STUDIED SUBJECT
- ALTERATIONS IN NASAL FUNCTION OCCURRING AS PART OF THE ORGANISM?S PATTERN OF ADJUSTMENT TO HIS ENVIRONMENT
- TEMPORAL CORRELATION OF THREATENING LIFE SITUATIONS WITH NASAL DISTURBANCES IN ONE HUNDRED PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OR RECURRENT NASAL DISEASE
- THE RELATION OF NASAL TO SEXUAL FUNCTION
- THE RELATION OF NASAL TO GASTRIC FUNCTION
- MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN DISORDERS OF THE NASAL AND PARANASAL SPACES
- PAIN FROM ATHE NASAL AND PARANASAL STRUCTURES: THE MECHANISM OF ?SINUS HEADACHE?
- CONSIDERATIONS AND FORMULATION
- SUMMARY
INDEX
Condition: Former owner?s name on front pastedown, else very good. Clean and tight.
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