Word: dementias
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...Gomez eccentricities are neither the result of mild dementia nor a desire to attract attention. He is somewhat absentminded. Pitching against Cleveland in his first year with the Yankees, he was warned to be careful of Averill, who was on a batting rampage. At the beginning of the second inning he whispered anxiously to Catcher Dickey: "Be sure to let me know when Averill comes up." Catcher Dickey informed him that Averill had struck out in the first. The following year the Yankees were playing a crucial game against Washington; there were two men out and three on base; suddenly...
...duty in the tropics and certain foreign stations longer than two years. Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson of the Army pleaded before a Senate committee for the two year restriction. About 500 men are being discharged from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas departments-the Philippines, Hawaii, Canal Zone. Surgeon General Patterson blames the tropics: "Residence in the tropic regions at or near the sea level is unfavorable to the health of Northern races. Among the things which may exercise...
...ones. Last year he was convicted, and soon paroled, by the Juvenile Court for having molested an 8-year-old. (But according to the coroner small Dorette Zietlow had not been touched.) George Rogalski announced he hated his mother, who it appeared was a sexual delinquent once confined for dementia praecox. He liked his father, an $18-a-week bakery employee who told newshawks: "Let them kill him, I'd like to see them. . . . I done all I could with...
...than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow up the production of hormones by those glands? Dr. Hutton, who has cured inmates of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin of dementia praecox and melancholia by means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does no better than...
...gets a new interest in life-showing her that she belongs, not in New York where she has been married and divorced, but on the ancestral Iowa farm. What happens in The Stranger's Return is bare enough in outline. Grandpa pretends to be suffering from senile dementia, uses the three doctors of the county insane board as witnesses to a new will in which he leaves the farm to his granddaughter. She falls in love with young Guy Crane (Franchot Tone) whose land lies next to Storrhaven but there is nothing to be done about it because neither...