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THE USE OF PROCAINE AMIDE IN CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS
Author(s) -
H J KAYDEN,
J M STEELE,
L C MARK,
B B BRODIE
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1952.tb83861.x
Subject(s) - citation , procaine , psychology , computer science , arithmetic , medicine , world wide web , mathematics , neuroscience
changes is known in certain other types of psychosomatic disease. Some writers think that there is an underlying constitutional inferiority in the subjects of effort syndrome, and have even suggested that functional general and coronary insufficiency exists in the circulatory system of such persons, but all would not agree that this is proven. Miles and Cobb, in warning their readers of the uncertainties of anthropological research in these problems, quote Mishkin, who bluntly said: "Give a man a measuring rod and he will beat his brains out." And now where do we stand? No doubt there are extreme prototypes of those patients who can be classified as suffering from either anxiety neurosis or effort syndrome, and it seems fair to admit that a mere list of symptoms will probably drag patients with varying conditions into one net. Miles and Cobb urge that those who approach this disordered state from the somatic or physiological point of view should be aware that mere similarity of symptoms does not justify an assumption that retiology and psychodynamic make-up are the same in different patients. In conclusion it may be remarked that if a given patient suffering from the effort syndrome is treated after an invariable routine the therapeutic result may not be good. We know that treatment of a relevant psychiatric basis may require much time and patience, but insistence on the somatic factors is likely to do the patient a disservice.