354 MAN --AN ADAPTIVE MECHANISM 



sciousness. The increased temperature, increased pulse 

 rate, flushed face and flushed extremities are identi- 

 cal with the symptoms of so-called hyperthyroidism. 



Section of normal liver. Section of liver of soldier described 



in Fig. 86. The general disintegra- 

 tion of the cells, the loss of cyto- 

 plasm, and the vacuolated spaces 

 within the cells illustrate the effect 

 of emotion, exhaustion, lack of sleep, 

 pain and surgical trauma. 



FIG. 88. EFFECTS OF EXTREME ACTIVATION ON THE LIVER OF A SOLDIER. 

 (From photomicrographs, X 1640.) 



Furthermore, as postoperative hyperthyroidism devel- 

 ops and continues, practically always a stage super- 



