Da Costa's syndrome or neurocirculatory asthenia.

Cardiac Symptoms in the Neuroses

In this monograph the author sets out the conclusions of an investigation into the significance of such symptoms as left mammary pain, sighing respiration and palpitation, ' le trepied' of Gallavardin. Dr. Baker has endeavoured to determine their significance and importance, whether any one of the three could be associated with organic disease, and to evolve a syndrome which would allow cases w...

Studies of Breathing, Pulmonary Ventilation and Subjective Awareness of Shortness of Breath (dyspnea) in Neurocirculatory Asthenia, Effort Syndrome, Anxiety Neurosis.

Life situations, emotions and neurocirculatory asthenia (anxiety neurosis, neurasthenia, effort syndrome).

The Effort Syndrome

THE effort syndrome has been defined by Grant (1936) as "that condition of ill-health in which symptoms and signs produced in normal subjects by excessive exercise are called forth in the patients by lesser amounts and in which no definite physical signs of structural disease are anywhere discovered." More briefly it may be described as a depressed capacity for exertion without distress in the ...

Teaching cardiology to undergraduate students.

Modern cardiology is based on knowledge derived from several disciplines: Anatomy and embryology, physiology, pathology and bacteriology, pharmacology, physics, roentgenology, physical diagnosis, comparative biology, general medicine and surgery, pediatrics, and therapeutics. Psychiatry in all its aspects, public health, industrial organization, and social service, have multiple problems in com...