Word: hypochondriac
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Alcoholics Are Sick. "Fundamentally," writes Baltimore's Dr. Horace K. Richardson, "the alcoholic is sick in his ego." If the ego is weakened in childhood, a neurotic, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic or a drug addict may result. Because of ego weakness, the average alcoholic lacks feelings of independence and power. "In alcohol he has discovered an easy, temporary and always obtainable method of pulling down the shade between himself and the threatening world of cold, hard, painful facts about...
Even before they encounter failure, Jap soldiers are anything but supermen. They are notoriously hypochondriac. They carry little oily green cakes which they rub on the skin to keep mosquitoes away. Many carry white gloves which they wear when they sleep. They carry toilet waters and perfumed powders...
...first proves only a nuisance who demands a lot of waiting on, but soon turns into a back-stabbing monster who plots everyone's destruction. She enrages the servants, drives the husband to drink, wrecks his career, ruins his marriage, makes a shrew of his wife, a hypochondriac of his child, precipitates a village scandal. Her trouble, which is sex, finally unmasks her; her phobia, which is birds, finally causes her death...
...Florrie entered vivaciously into Aigburth's fashionable life. Only apparent flaw in her happiness was the antagonism her husband's brothers showed her. She bore two children. It looked like a happy marriage. But in those days all marriages were trademarked "Heaven." James Maybrick turned into a hypochondriac, morbidly dosed himself with drugs. Worse, Florrie suspected that he was unfaithful. She herself found a lover, went to meet him in London, where she had a three-day Victorian romance, at Flatman's Hotel. Then she went home to her husband and an apparent reconciliation. Next evening, returning...
...satire on the medical quackery of his day, Moliere's play becomes dated for a modern audience. "The Imaginary Invalid" nevertheless, is a far cry from the archaic. In the witty lines of the French master, the universal idiosyncrasies of the hypochondriac are ample material for an evening of delightful comedy. The Repertory version employs a single setting--Argan's sick-room--in which the familiar touch of John Holabird '42 appears with good effect...