Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

THE RELATION BETWEEN MALNUTRITION AND NERVOUSNESS

THE RELATION BETWEEN MALNUTRITION AND NERVOUSNESS Modern clinical medicine owes its growth and development chiefly to two philosophies of disease. The first of these which today dominates medical thought and practice, is known as the mechanistic; the second, in vogue for only about fifteen or twenty years, is known as the functional point of view. According to the former, any derangement in function of the organs of the body sufficient to cause symptoms and signs of disease must be due to definite change in structure or size of the tissue cells. Famous discoveries in pathology as those by Virchow, epoch-making contributions in biology as those by Darwin, and experimental data collected by such great physiologists as Helmholtz, Bernard, Liebig and Müller made only more pronounced the leaning of the medical profession toward mechanical interpretations of disease. It is, therefore, not surprising to find the literature on the subject of nutritional disturbances most comprehensive in the description http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American journal of diseases of children American Medical Association

THE RELATION BETWEEN MALNUTRITION AND NERVOUSNESS

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-medical-association/the-relation-between-malnutrition-and-nervousness-EXoph8FFXx

References (2)

Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1929 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0096-8994
eISSN
1538-3628
DOI
10.1001/archpedi.1929.01930010008001
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Modern clinical medicine owes its growth and development chiefly to two philosophies of disease. The first of these which today dominates medical thought and practice, is known as the mechanistic; the second, in vogue for only about fifteen or twenty years, is known as the functional point of view. According to the former, any derangement in function of the organs of the body sufficient to cause symptoms and signs of disease must be due to definite change in structure or size of the tissue cells. Famous discoveries in pathology as those by Virchow, epoch-making contributions in biology as those by Darwin, and experimental data collected by such great physiologists as Helmholtz, Bernard, Liebig and Müller made only more pronounced the leaning of the medical profession toward mechanical interpretations of disease. It is, therefore, not surprising to find the literature on the subject of nutritional disturbances most comprehensive in the description

Journal

American journal of diseases of childrenAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 1, 1929

There are no references for this article.