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This week with the five-month summer water-cure season gushing at full tap, an estimated 50,000 French spaddicts are off to nearly 100 government-licensed "thermal establishments." Somewhere in France is a spa for every hydro-hypochondriac. Each spa is classified by the mineral content of its water and the diseases it is supposed to treat. Rheumatism is soothed at 55 stations; the spa at Encausse specializes in malaria; 27 other places cater to specific circulatory diseases such as heart trouble (Bourbon-Lancy), high blood pressure (Evian) and inflamed veins (Luxeuil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gurgle, Gargle, Guggle | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

After a long overdue medical checkup, some of the hoariest traditions of sport were declared no better than a hypochondriac's fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Needs Steaks? | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Properly viewed, the play is just as timely today as it was in 1673. Despite its title, it is not just a portrait of a hypochondriac; nor is it just another volley in Moliere's life-long campaign against Baroque medical quackery and incompetence. The main theme of the play is the struggle between fraud and stupidity--a warning against too great a trust in alleged experts and arrant professionalism. Of the two dozen or so personages in the piece, only two are natural and honest human beings. The rest are all hypocrites or bluffers. Healthy Argan pretends...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Imaginary Invalid | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

...Gould's recording session was out on a Columbia LP. His "Goldberg" Variations are Bach as the old master himself must have played-with delight in speeding like the wind, joy in squeezing beauty out of every phrase, and all the freshness of the spring water which Hypochondriac Gould uses to wet his pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: When the Big Boy Goes ... | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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