Word: insomnia
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Lobotomy. Dr. Freeman, a poetaster in his spare time, was nervous when he rose to tell a fascinated audience how he and Dr. Watts ameliorated chronic anxiety, insomnia and nervous tension in six patients during the past two months. In addition the patients were relieved of various "disorientations, confusions, phobias, hallucinations and delusions...
...insomnia of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin abated during his prolonged vacation (which had continued up to last week since last July), and he was back at No. 10 Downing Street to shake up the British Cabinet before it again faced the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the smart, young Jewish Liberal who seems never to take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture...
...detects physiognomies in all stages of the anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount of strain connected with it," continued the noble doctor. "That is the penalty we pay for living. But the stress of modern life is excessive. We seem these days to live by accident rather...
...stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing the facts; the second, or inhibiting period, marked by self-indulgence, wandering attention, faulty observation; the third, or paralyzing stage, when bodily disorders set in, ranging from stomach ulcers, hyperacidity, twitchings, tremors, stammering, to pyloric spasms, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia...
...were not addressed to anybody, but they were love-letters. He also found an address book. Because he was frightfully in love with his wife and because he knew she had had "artistic" friends, Brand became convinced that she had had a lover. Feeding his suspicions on whiskey and insomnia, he set himself to tracking the man down...