TUMOR OF THE BRAIN WITH DISTURBANCE IN TEMPERATURE REGULATION

Abstract

The regulation of body temperature in the warm-blooded animal is an old biologic problem. The physiologist has come to recognize in this mechanism a coordinated reflex act, which maintains a level body temperature in the normal animal by balancing the production with the elimination of heat. Such a delicately adjusted reflex mechanism is thought to be governed by a centralized nervous structure, and evidence is accumulating in favor of the existence of a subdivision in the brain that serves as a heat-regulating center. However, the exact site of this center is still in doubt. Many efforts have been made to localize it; many experiments have been performed, but as yet no conclusive results have been obtained establishing the exact location of such a center. Among the several cerebral areas that are thought to contain a heat-regulating center is the corpus striatum. Aronson and Sachs¹produced experimentally a rise in