Abstract
IN order to know the relationship between the characters and the autonomic nerve functions of pulmonary tuberculosis patients, Miyake's, Awaji's and Wengei's tests were made on 150 pulmonary tuberculosis patients and on 20 normal individuals to serve as controls.
The findings of those tests revealed that the incidence rate of abnormal characters was much higher in the group of pulmonary tuberculosis patients than in the group of normal individuals.
When the above finding was viewed from the standpoint of autonomic nerve functions, those individuals with abnormal character and those who developed highly different character after onset of tuberculosis infection were mostly found among the sympathetic nerve dominant individuals.
When viewed from the standpoint of character features, lack of will, easily variable mood and hypersensibility were mostly found among the sympathetic nerve dominant individuals and disability was found mostly among the parasympathetic nerve dominant, autonomic nerve tension type and normal individuals.
No significant relationship was observed between the findings of tropism test and the autonomic nerve functions.
