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...last few days before menstruation. Physicians usually treat the problem lightly ("Mostly in the mind," many have said); not so London Drs. Iain and Pamela MacKinnon, a husband and wife team. They were impressed by recent trickles of medical evidence that women in the latter part of the menstrual cycle not only have cellular changes but are more prone at that period to commit crimes of violence and experience emotional instability. They checked 47 coroners' cases, and post-mortem examinations made it possible for them to determine at what stage of the cycle death had occurred...
...second wife in June 1954, and claimed that she had been divorced long before he met her. The women, suspecting Hartini's reputation, promptly dug out the fact that Hartini's divorce was not entered officially until April 1954. Moslem law requires the elapse of three menstrual periods before a divorced woman can remarry. Thus, the ladies calculated, Hartini had violated Moslem law. Soon she was delivered...
...shotgun type of blood tonic from the medical advertisements and hopes for the best. Prescribing iron is merely treating the symptom, and often worthless: an adult male should get all the iron he needs from a normal diet, unless he is losing blood; so should a woman, barring unusual menstrual difficulties. The iron deficiency may be a clue which will lead the thorough physician to a kidney disorder, a liver infection, inflammation of the heart membrane, or even an unsuspected cancer...
...male hormones; the second requires the opposite treatment-leaving the estrogen sources intact, perhaps even giving extra estrogens and cortisone. To type a patient's cancer and decide whether the ovaries should be removed, the doctors have only to trace her pattern of calcium excretion through a single menstrual cycle...
Editor Schneck and his colleagues recommend using hypnosis to get at a wide range of psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...