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When Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third Duke of Alba, was dying, the priest asked him if he had forgiven his enemies. The 16th-Century tyrant answered: "I have no enemies; I have hanged them...
...last week was an unusual medical book, Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain (Hoeber; $5), an authoritative treatise which Dr. Walter C. Alvarez directs toward young physicians, but which will be as eagerly read by laymen as by doctors. Its 471 pages include some of the ideas the famed gastroenterologist summarized in his recent hints to busy doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. (TIME, Aug. 16)-and many more. All are calculated to help doctors make accurate diagnoses and limit treatment to what will actually help. Emphasis is on ways of knowing when a patient has no organic disease...
...Alvarez has already written one medical bestseller, Nervous Indigestion. Laymen like his cheerful, chatty style, free from scientific doubletalk, full of Aesopic richness of anecdote, character sketches in which many a reader may recognize himself. Sample anecdotes...
Advice to Patients. The troubles of about one-fourth of Dr. Alvarez' patients are "functional" disorders (caused usually by overtiredness, "nervous storms," sometimes insanity); the rest of his cases are organic. But some patients with well-marked organic disease are suffering not so much from it as from "functional" malady -one woman had five or six organic diseases but the real cause of her trouble was that her husband, tired of her fussiness, had got himself a cheerful mistress. Says Dr. Alvarez: "I knew of no medicine or operation to cure this...
...from scorning sufferers whose organs are normal, Dr. Alvarez knows from his own experience (gained chiefly during a long convalescence from influenza in 1918) that "functional" aches & pains may be just as debilitating as organic disease. These patients he treats with sympathetic advice, sometimes works cures by getting them to adopt calmer ways of thinking and living...