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That Tired Feeling. Maya's famed Internist Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term...
...opinion of no less an authority than Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, famed Mayo Clinic internist, doctors should take a long, suspicious look at mineral oil. Said Fishbein, quoting Alvarez: "These observations raise the grave question . . . whether mineral oil can be used safely, year in and year out, as some persons use it; they also raise the question whether purveyors of food should ever be allowed to substitute mineral oil for the edible fats...
...Sage of the Age rapped his gavel. "The Association of Sayers will be Cummings to order. Alvarez all our associates...
Physicians, says Alvarez, too often dismiss such patients as neurotic or hypochondriac, argue that a stroke is impossible without such classic signs as muscular weakenings or loss of feeling in parts of the skin. But Alvarez insists that the brain can sustain thousands of tiny strokes with no symptoms beyond changes in personality. Nothing can be done to cure such patients, he admits, but doctors can emphasize that strokes may be far apart...
...notable case, Alvarez suspects, was that of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference. One day he felt unwell, was thought to have a cold. Suddenly he changed from a considerate man to a fussy one, impatient, suspicious, convinced he was being spied...