RT Journal
A1 EDES RT
T1 THe present relations of psychotherapy
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD January 9
VO LII
IS 2
SP 92
OP 96
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420280006002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420280006002
AB The answer to the question whether the pathologist can ever draw a sharp line between organic disease and functional disturbance is yet far off. Newer methods are constantly narrowing the list of maladies of which the organic substratum has been hitherto unknown.Every expenditure of nervous energy, every mental action, every emotion, is undoubtedly accompanied by a subtle change in a larger or smaller group of neurones, some breaking down of the complicated vital molecules into simpler ones more closely akin to the inorganic, more accessible to the microscope and the test-tube. Fatigued tissues can be recognized under the microscope, and when the balance between fatigue and repair is broken for too long a time permanent degeneration is manifest. It is more in accordance with our knowledge of tissue metamorphosis and of toxic action to assume that the material change is the primary one. The rapid action of many poisons