In the higher animals and in primitive man, according to them, all trophic actions entered consciousness and were regulated by it.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
In this manner they explain burns through suggestion, stigmata, trophic changes of a miraculous appearance, etc.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
Interference with the trophic nerve supply may play a part, as cases are recorded by Bognaud in which union of fractures of the leg failed to take place after injuries of the spinal medulla causing paraplegia.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson