Word: hypochondria
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...home or refrigerator, made gold a surprise issue in a presidential campaign. Said Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.: "This is the first time in my lifetime that the credit of the U.S. has been questioned. A very serious shadow lies over the American business picture." Economic Hypochondria. In 1960 the U.S. citizen faced the new problems with uncommon concern, gamely tried to grapple with such subjects as the rate of economic growth, interest rates and the balance of payments. Even cartoonists turned their drawing boards into economics classrooms. So widespread was the sense of involvement that Charles...
Doubtless a touch of hypochondria makes the whole world kin and guarantees moments of sympathetic laughter. But when hypochondria shifts to fancied heart disease, it is easier to be farcical than funny and the baby jokes get more and more unruly as the papa joke lies feebly wasting away. When at last sex gains admittance, the show takes on more life and produces some funny moments. But moments only; Send Me No Flowers, as a whole, is geared too low, pushed too hard and stretched...
...headache and muscle pain, leading to cramps from contraction of the belly muscles. The remedy: salt (given intravenously if the patient cannot swallow enough). The milder and more insidious chronic salt depletion shows the same signs, but sometimes in such vague form as to be mistaken for malingering or hypochondria. Salt tablets (but only for those who really sweat excessively) will prevent or cure...
...began his quackery as a humble "Quaker doctor," a species of tonic peddler who "thee'd" and "thou'd" dollars out of rubes' back pockets-and, naturally, had no connection with the Society of Friends. He learned early the bases of his calling-how to exploit hypochondria, and how to aggravate the bone-bred dislike of the ignorant for honest physicians ("Don't let your doctor two-dollar you to death," he was to thunder later...
Often, his efforts to avoid unpleasantness take the form of hypochondria-as he puts it, "I'm a doctor freak." Although his doctor says he is an unusually healthy specimen, Duke tends to mistrust his ability to stay well; if his pulse rate seems slow to him in Las Vegas, it means a call to New York, for his doctor to take the next plane out. He will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle...