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(Circulation. 1956;14:260.)
© 1956 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Reassurance in the Management of Benign Hypertensive Disease

WILLIAM GOLDRING M.D.¹; HERBERT CHASIS M.D.¹; GEORGE E. SCHREINER M.D.¹; HOMER W. SMITH SC.D.¹; Margaret Wilson R.N.¹

¹ From the Departments of Medicine and Physiology, New York University College of Medicine, and the Third (New York University) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y.

The therapeutic improvement achieved by administration of drugs in arterial hypertension and other disease states is widely recognized to be due to the potency of reassurance and suggestion as well as the possible pharmacologic action of the drugs employed. In this article Dr. Goldring and his associates evaluate the effectiveness of a calculated and deliberately dramatized regimen of reassurance on the blood pressure and on the symptoms in patients with benign hypertensive disease. These results help to explain why nonscientific treatment sometimes seems to be crowned with therapeutic success.