神経性頻尿の心身医学的研究(第2報) -臨床的観察-

Abstract

Clinical observation was performed from the standpoint of psychosomatic medicine on seventy-one children and ninety-nine adult patients diagnosed as nervous pollakisuria for the past three years. (1) Nervous pollakisuria in children. It occurred with more frequency in males than in females by two against one. The majority of the patients were between three and seven years old, and were the eldest son or daughter, which presented a difference with the control. Matters connected with the occurrence of pollakisuria were disease, home life, school and kindergarten. (2) Nervous pollakisuria in adults. It occurred with a little more frequency in females than in males and occurred most frequently m the twenties. Out of past and present diseases, neurosis and nervous pollakisuria formed about ten per cent. Matters connected with the occurrence of pollakisuria were disease, uneasiness and mental st-rain.