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Updated: May 25, 2025
How may we rightly assert that a form of imaginative life is clearly pathologic? In my opinion, the answer must be sought in the nature and degree of belief accompanying the labor of creating.
Excessive development of the mammae, generally being a pathologic phenomenon, will be mentioned in another chapter. However, among some of the indigenous negroes the female breasts are naturally very large and pendulous. The breasts are sufficiently pendulous and loose to be easily thrown over the shoulder. Polymazia is of much more frequent occurrence than is supposed.
This is summation, and summation plays a large role in the development of both normal and pathologic phenomena. We have now pointed out the manner in which at least a part of the nervous energy of man may be discharged.
Being almost completely encased by a somewhat inexpansible and insensitive wall and sole, renders the foot subject to pathologic changes peculiar to itself. The very nature of the structure of the foot together with the function of the sensitive lamina is sufficient cause for an affection unlike that seen involving other tissues laminitis.
The first decision to be made is what constitutes a slow pulse or slow heart. A pulse below 58 or 60 beats per minute should be considered slow, and anything below 50 should be considered abnormally slow and a condition more or less suspicious. A pulse from 45 to 50 per minute occasionally occurs when no pathologic excuse can be found, but such a slow rate is unusual.
All disease and all injuries are attributed to mythic beings or to witchcraft, and on these pathologic ideas the medicine practices of the people are based. The medicine men are sorcerers, who work wonders in discovering witchcraft and averting its effects or in discovering the disease-making animals and overcoming their power.
Hemorrhages occupy the foremost place among the pathologic phenomena of the genital tract during the menopause.
Sometimes the disease is more violent, and toward the end there are epileptic convulsions and muscular tremors. Autopsies have revealed no pathologic changes. Recently Forbes contributes an interesting paper on the sleeping sickness of Africa. The disease may occur in either sex and at any age, though it is most frequent from the twelfth to the twentieth years, and in the male sex.
Not infrequently and probably more frequently than we recognize, recovery without any of the pathologic lesions just described follows mild endocarditis.
By some it is considered a reversion to the lower species, while others deny this and claim it to be simply a pathologic appendix. Anomalies of the Spinal Canal and Contents. When there is a default in the spinal column, the vice of conformation is called spina bifida.
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