ABDOMINAL BRAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 10

ABDOMINAL BRAIN

glands in certain species of wild animals, as a result of an African expedition lie made several years ago. Ue told physicians he had found, ten, that the animals called upon for sudden action, either to protect, them-

selves or to seize food, had unusually large coeliac ganglia. Animals of this type include the lion, liger, and antelope. More sluggish creatures such as the alligator had smaller ones. "J believe there are also strains or families in the human race so

equipped with these large nerve confres. which account, for the tremendous amount of work they do.” he sa id.

Complete surgical removal of the ganglion. Dr. ('rile reported, had been Icuiid to allord marked relief for victims of high blood pressure. He had operated, he said, on 271 1 atients, 1)1 per cent of whom had had symptomatic improvement and 81 per cent of whom had returned to work.

Although this is the biggest, ganglion in the sympathetic, nervous system it is only about as large as a.

quarter (a, quarter dollar, about, the

size of a shilling). Dr. Crile added, and the biggest, one lie ever had removed weighed HJlfO milligrammes. Dr. John S. Coulter, of North-west-ern University Medical School, told the assembly of more than 30U0 physicians that electrically induced fev-

ers. so high that, if produced by the body they would cause death, ‘ had

been used with some success in the

l.' ca 11 ne nt o 1 13 3 cases o f ch ron i c a r thrit is.

He described the use of an electrical cabinet, similar in appearance to

an "iron lung," in which the patient could l>e confined for indefinite pe>--ii i!s while elect l ira I currents induced body ft niperatiircs as high as Ipi grers Fahrenheit.

The levers thus induced. Dr. Coulter said, aided the body in combating the invasion of several types of in-

tcclioii and had been employed in (he

past in the treatment of syphilitic con dtiimis such as general paresis.

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SECRET OF SUCCESS. The country’s outstanding football players, as well as its high-pressure industrial executives, may credit their achievements largely to possession of an oversized ganglion, or "abdominal brain.” said Dr. George W. Crile, of Cleveland, in an address before the Inter-State Post-Graduate Medical As-

sociation. of North America, reports “The New York Times.” On the other hand, he said, the coeliac ganglion, must be blamed for high blood pressure. He described an operation which he originated three years ago for removing it. An important nerve centre located at the back of the abdominal cavity, lite coeliac ganglion was responsible, he asserted, for controlling the supply of blood to various parts of the body, and consequently those persons

whose ganglia, were enlarged got a larger supply of blood more rapidly; than their fellow-beings at the point; where it was needed. For this 1 reason, he suggested, they were more aggressive, played harder and longer or worked an unlimited number of hours and so forged to the front in sports and in business competition. For the. same reason, he said, in later life they were likely to be more subject to high blood pressure and the conditions which followed in. its wake. Dr Crile had reported previously on tite relationship in the size of various