Visceral sensation: Clinical manifestation and experimental bases

TLDR: The author will report first on this clinical experiment, because it is at present scarcely performed, and then he will refer to the histological and pathological findings.

Abstract: Visceral sensation could iormerly be examined during surgical operations, because they were done under local or spinal anesthesia in which the patients remained conscious. Now because most operations are performed under general anesthesia, it i.s very difficult to examine human visceral sensations during a saarg~cal operation. In 1949, presuming that general anesthesia would become common in Japan, we performed clinical examinations on visceral pain during laparotomies. The result was reported in 1951 at the Congress of Japan Surgical Society. At the beginning of this paper the author will report first on this clinical experiment, because it is at present scarcely performed, and then he will refer to the histological and pathological findings.