Menière論文と19世紀の反応

―第十二編：書物でみる胃性めまい―

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In Part 12 of this series, descriptions of vertigo in general were the main objects and stomachic vertigo was investigated in relation to vertigo in general. Galen quoted from Archiges that sympathy of the gastric opening with the brain caused vomiting and spasm. The regime of Salerno University (1480) recorded that most sympathies arose from the lesions in the stomach, liver, spleen and uterus. Other Medieval books of Willis (1684) and De La Mettre (1761) are minimally divergent from the ancient ideas. Herz (1791) described systematically and succeeded to escape from the ancient ideas. Double (1817) made several precise observations of signs and symptoms. Finally, Dejerine (1914) made a very important leap forward in that his book on neurology is still a classical must-read book. His impression of stomachic vertigo is that occasional excitations of both sensory and motor systems might give rise to types of vertigo which have nothing to do with the stomach. The year of 1861, when Menière’s labyrinthine vertigo was established, is the year which is literally evolutional for the idea of vertigo based on thousands of years of history.