Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endocrines have an important influence over the mental as well as the physical state of the body. In the Elgin (Ill.) State Hospital for the Insane endocrine disorders have been found to be very numerous, and treatment of these disorders has restored a larger number of patients to an approximately normal state so that they were able to leave the institution than did any other procedure...
...devote his entire time to his flat decorative landscapes and formal figures. As a painter he is as methodical as he was a lawyer. He works eight hours a day. During the three years they spent together in Anticoli. Italy he drove his artistic mentor, tempera mental Maurice Sterne, to the verge of exhaustion by forcing him to keep the same rigorous hours. Best known Bruce canvas. Panorama of San Francisco, hangs in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. The Luxembourg has another of his landscapes...
...into space, playing with his panama. Instead of proceeding to select a jury, Col. Donovan rose and told Federal Judge Caffey that Mr. Harriman was unable to give him any coherent or rational help in preparing the defense. Col. Donovan asked that the court determine Banker Harriman's mental competence before the trial. He produced six affidavits, one from Mrs. Harriman declaring that Banker Harriman had never been the same since the death of their son Alan in 1928. Afterwards she herself had pernicious anemia, and her overworked husband tended her every night...
...Smith Ely Jelliffe, who had made one affidavit, was called to the stand. Benign, 66-year-old expert neurologist, his monograph on nervous and mental diseases written in collaboration with Dr. William A. White of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital commands the highest respect of the medical profession. Also he has made considerable good money by testifying as an alienist in legal cases. He testified to the "mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband...
...system. Hence diabetes. Too active a pancreas produces too much insulin, causes an opposite disease called hyperinsulinism. or ''hungry disease." Dr. Scale Harris of Birmingham, who has studied this phenomenon for ten years, described the symptoms as excessive hunger accompanied by weakness, nervousness, tremors, sweating and mental lapses. Many a person considered to be an epileptic actually suffers only from "hunger disease," said Dr. Harris. Only positive way to diagnose hunger disease is to find abnormally little sugar in the blood. Most important cause of the hyperinsulinism is an inflamed pancreas. Careful adherence to a diet...