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Word: ailments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors now generally agree that mental irritation of some sort causes many a physical ailment. In Patients Have Families (The Commonwealth Fund; $3), published last fortnight, Manhattan's Dr. Henry B. Richardson suggests that the source of the irritation is usually to be found in the patient's family. Proposing that doctors consider "the family as the unit of illness," he supports his argument with the stories of patient after patient who could not get well until something was done to clear up his troubled family situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Family Trouble | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...that he was "convinced" that the Nazis had murdered his brother. On the return flight from Germany, said Cyril, Tsar Boris was given an oxygen mask impregnated with "a strong solution" which caused embolism and death. The Germans claimed that he died of a heart attack and a lung ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Mysticism & Murder | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, whose rumored afflictions range from cerebral hemorrhage to an abnormal taste for cutting rugs with his bicuspids, was reported by the Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen to have a new ailment: ear trouble, brought on by last July's attempted assassination. Hitler's hearing, said Stockholm, is so impaired that he can "no longer judge the sound of his words, nor can he use tones of irony or contempt, or his famous false heartiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...Beach, 77, composer, pride of U.S. women's clubs, famed for such easily negotiable glee-club melodies as Ah, Love, but a Day, The Year's at the Spring, first woman composer to have a work per formed by the N. Y. Symphony (in 1892); of heart ailment; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, the Judge took a turn for the worse. A joint committee of the National and American Leagues rushed to Chicago, solemnly recommended him for another seven years in office. It was a kindly gesture. Last week, baseball's 78-year-old czar died of a heart ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boss | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

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