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...probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels." There is no doubt that Freud suffered while in the U.S. from both chronic appendicitis and prostatic discomfort. In connection with his prostatitis, which necessitated frequent urinating, he complained: "They escort you along miles of corridors, and ultimately you are taken to the very basement, where a marble palace awaits you-only just in time...
Author Phillips has produced a keg of potent Southern discomfort recommended only to those who agree that "the weight of a matter depends on the heaviness of the heart...
...receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
...series of patients selected by Dr. Pearson, attending physician at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. The procedure, no longer rated dangerous, takes only 1½ hours. Many patients are up and about the next day; within a week they report a loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs pitressin (to control water balance), which is taken...
...discomfort and outraged cries produced by this incident are typical of the reactions Seavey has been eliciting from his students throughout his teaching career. In most cases, however, the effect is intentional--the desired response to a purposely acid classroom technique. Indeed, his teaching method has often been considered the classic example of the Socratic method in legal instruction, the question and answer system which teaches students by exasperating them...