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Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
...alcoholic's hangover, says Dr. Lolli, differs fundamentally from that of a casual drinker: the alcoholic, after a drinking bout, is beset with uncontrollable tremors, nameless fears, insomnia, an enlarged liver, all sorts of neurotic digestive disorders. He badly needs food, because a prolonged diet of alcohol produces vitamin and mineral deficiencies...
This cured me of: sinus, headaches, constipation, insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, nervousness, poor appetite, palsy of the larynx, sore eyes, nervous perspiration, chronic depression and strained human relations, to mention a few of my former disorders. But, during those four years as a psycho, I did as good a job as anyone...
Marcia (The Valley of Decision) Davenport spoke up to complain of the occupational hazards of authorship. Leading her list of 22 complaints: constipation, headache, backache, eyeache, nerves, ill-timed insomnia and somnolence, gas and hips...
Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...