Abstract
During the daily routine, internists often have experience of cases who complain of various symptoms and appearently look like cases of neurosis, but are actually proved to be cases of low blood-pressure when the blood pressure was determined.
In the present paper, the authors describe various clinical observations on the essential low blood-pressure omitting the symptomatic low blood-pressure and discuss the nature thereof.
1) As to the symptoms, fatigue, headache, dizziness, stiff shoulders and cold sensation in the extremities are characteristics of this disease. In addition, the authors reproduced experiments hitherto reported and commented on the cause of this disease.
2) As to the discussion on the nature of this disease, the authors recognized, in most cases, functional deteriolation in the system of hypophysis and the cortex of the suprarenal gland by Thorn's tests.
3) In the hematological findings, due to increase in the number of eosinophile and lymphocyte, a characteristic curve was recognized in ELMoNogram.
In view of the above, the authors consider that the functional deteriolation in the system of hypophysis and the cortex of the suprarenal gland is playing an important role in the cause of this disease.
