The regional distribution of emotional sweating in man

摘要: 1. Emotional sweating was induced in normal subjects by mental arithmetic at environmental temperatures of 29 and 26° C estimated from continuous records body weight loss. 2. The sweat output four independent regions the — (a) head neck, (b) arms legs, (c) trunk, (d) hands feet studied separately, remainder being covered each case plastic bags. evaporative water loss skin region increased markedly during arithmetic. 3. contribution a substantial fraction total response appeared to be roughly proportional calculated number glands region. 4. There is no evidence these experiments indicate that behave differently those rest emotional stress.