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Acute or clinical depression, which is characterized by dejection, fearfulness and, as the medical dictionaries phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...
Those who have already been immunized have a good chance of avoiding this year's ailment. Those who are afflicted are advised to seek prompt treatment, which includes bed rest and copious quantities of fluids...
...move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over by his Deputy Premiers...
Moroz began his voluntary hunger strike in July when he found brain-damaging drugs were being mixed with his food, he how weighs 90 pounds and is suffering from a blood and liver ailment, the committee reported last night...
That physical impairment helped pave Miller's road to power. In 1969, while working at the wet mine, he helped organize strikes in West Virginia to force passage of a state law declaring black-lung disease a work-incurred ailment worthy of compensation pay. His unauthorized activities enraged U.M.W. panjandrums, and Miller became a leader of the insurgents who ultimately brought down Tony Boyle, U.M.W. president for a decade...