Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
...help such a man reconcile himself to retirement and prepare for it. Suppose you have a patient of 63. You know he has a one-track mind, and in two years he'll face the bugbear of retirement. Do you wait until he's had his nervous breakdown after retirement, or do you start preparing him for it? Classical medicine would wait; constructive medicine would...
...guard against strategic shipments behind the Iron Curtain still another notch. Last week Dulles took a tolerant, understanding tone toward Britain's announcement that it would send more strategic goods to Red China, added: "We do not now have to conclude that it will lead to a general breakdown" of the strategic goods...
...Mills team checked 1,910 men and women and tracked down 531 recent deaths from lung cancer (with which they lumped cancers of nearby parts of the respiratory tract). They arrived at this breakdown: regardless of where a man lives, the smoking of pipes and cigars doubles or triples his risk of lung cancer; "moderate" cigarette smoking (16-35 cigarettes a day) multiplies the risk by four to six: heavy cigarette smoking by ten to 20. However much he smokes, a man who drives 12,000 or more miles a year in heavy traffic is exposed to exhaust fumes that...
...film cutter to find, instead of her husband and children, a note: "I have taken the children, and you will never see them again." On top of that, her lover declined to take the consequences. Gladys held out until her child was born. Then she suffered a serious nervous breakdown-not without precedent in the family. Both her parents, Norma Jeane's grandparents, died in mental institutions...