Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems / [by] George W. Crile. Ether day address, 1910.

  • Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943.
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[1910]
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Credit: Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems / [by] George W. Crile. Ether day address, 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    removes from surgery much of the immediate risk from its trauma by establishing anoci-association; it places on a physical basis certain of the phenomena of fear ; it explains to us the physical basis for the im- pairment of the entire individual under worry or mis- fortune ; the daily noci-associations of the individual as a social unit; or a noci-innuence of a part of the body ; on the other hand, it explains the power of therapeutic suggestion and other influences which serve for the time to change the noci-integration, the physi- cal basis for the difference between hope and despair ; it explains some of the phenomena of Graves' disease, of sexual neurasthenia ; possibly of hay fever and the genesis of the common cold, the principle is probably equally applicable to the acute infections whose chem- ical noci-association gives rise to manyof the phenomena of the disease and explains their cure by natural im- munity and by vaccines ; it should teach us to view our patients as a whole ; and especially should it teach the surgeon gentleness. It should teach us that there is something more in surgery than mechanics ; and something more in medicine than physical diagnosis and drugs. Conclusion. The brain cells have existed during eons of time and amid the vicissitudes of change with perhaps less alteration than the crust of the earth. Whether lodged in man or in the lower animals, they are related to and obey the same general biological laws, thus binding them, that is, ourselves, to the entire past and perform their function on the law of phylogenetic association. So long have we directed our attention upon tumors,