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Over a period of one year the authors studied a group of forty men with quiescent peptic ulcer from the standpoint of the efficiency of their autonomic regulatory apparatus as determined by the cold pressor test. Significant differences were found to exist in these patients as compared with normal controls. It is therefore suggested that psychosomatic disorders may result from disturbance in autonomic regulatory mechanism as well as from abnormal emotional or personality factors.