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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences 41.3 pp 263-270
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THE EFFECT ON SWEATING OF PRESSURE ON THE BODY SURFACE

E. S. Watkins 1

1 The Hot Climate Physiological Research Unit, Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria

1. Simultaneous collections of sweat from both scapular regions of West Africans, using a filter-paper weighing technique, have been made to observe the changes in sweating during the application of pressure to one side of the body.

2. When no pressure was applied, it was found that sweating on the two sides of the body may be changing in opposite directions at any one time.

3. The hemihidrotic response to pressure, described by Takagi and Sakurai [1950] was only occasionally demonstrated, and its validity is suspect in view of the changes in sweating found when no stimulus was applied.

Note:

Acknowledgments are due to Dr. W. S. S. Ladell and Dr. O. G. Edholm for their advice and criticism of this work, and to Staff-Sgt. R. Byers, R.A.M.C., Mr. P. G. Phillips and Mr. E. A. Oshinyemi for their assistance in carrying out the experiments. I am grateful to the Director of Army Health for permission to publish this paper.

Submitted on October 25, 1955






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