流涎症の二治験例について

　唾液腺の研究は，生理学，生化学等の基礎医学部門に於ては深い関心が払われ，文献の捗猟に当つて盡きる所がないが，臨床部面からの観察追及という事となると各科のグレンツゲビートに跨るためか何れの方面からも本質的な追求が行はれておらず，炎症，腫瘍，結石等の症例報告を散見するに過ぎない。況して流涎症に関する報告例は極めて少いのである。私は，三楽病院耳鼻科に於て偶々二例の興味ある流涎症に遭遇し，確立した療法の無い所から治療に難澁したが，幸い二例共治癒を認めたので此処に報告する次第である。

　MURAKAMI rerorts 2 cases of hyper-salivation that were cured in one by adenotosillectomy a d the other by deep X-Ray therapy. Examination of saliva in both cases proved to be normal. The author states that this abnormal slivation is a condition brought on by a state of vagotonia. Abnorma stimulation arising from nasopharynx and tonsils reaching the craniol centers must have established reflex pathway for the parotid glands which w a also augmented by vagotonia causing the stimulation riasing from hypothalmus which passed through the dorsal neucleus. The treaiment of nasophar ynx caused an abruption in the course of travel of that stimulation in spite of the state of vagotonia that in turn established a normal pathway of stimuli.