Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when Mary Cleer went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the great medical faculty there had never before treated or even seen a girl who sneezed so persistently. Johns Hopkins specialists began a new series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many...
...psychiatric clinic. Every year a number of maladjusted individuals come to college, and because of a variety of troubles--finances, family, studies, and even love--fail to fit into the picture. When the psychiatric division takes charge of such men, they are generally sent back on the path to mental health...
Last week it was belatedly discovered that Mr. Meehan, far from recovering after his preliminary bout with SEC, had been confined since last August to Bloomingdale Hospital, a sanatorium near Manhattan for the treatment of nervous and mental disorders. On the application of his wife and the advice of two alienists, the 42-year-old broker had been committed by New York Supreme Court Justice William F. Bleakley just before that jurist accepted the Republican nomination for Governor of New York...
...other hand, Dr. Samuel Bernard Wortis of Manhattan angrily exclaimed: "Dr. Freeman has obtained here a shock result, which can always change the course of a psychosis. I have seen mental patients in Bellevue Hospital who have become normal after such a shock as the fracture...
...contemporary literature that have come from his pen, have made a place for him beside Plato and Aristotle in the hall of philosophical fame. His attack of bifurcation, his "eternal entities", his consumation of a union between science and philosophy--to mention briefly but a few of his mental activities--will always be remembered...