Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have surely noticed how much more you enjoy eating when your mind is free from care. No mental strain or hurry slows down the natural flow of digestive fluids...
Psychiatry, as its specialists demonstrated at St. Louis last week, has not grown up into a clean-cut profession. The specialists showed more skill in discovering mental and emotional defects than in remedying them. In particular they seemed lost in the woods of psychobiology. According to this conception, which Dr. Adolf Meyer of Baltimore created, the well-rounded physician should simultaneously treat the mind, soul and body of each patient. To do the job well the physician must learn how each factor of that trinity affects the other in health and disease. Among consequences of Dr. Meyer's teachings...
...single factor that a patient fears most after an operation is, not death, but pain. The most potent analgesic known is mental distraction."-Dr. Thomas Johannes Heldt, Detroit...
...Another case was a young college student. He suddenly developed abnormal pains and a mental attitude that made his studies impossible. We really were convinced after a time that it was a mental case. Another doctor began testing him on food reactions. Two days later he called me over and showed me that the dull and apathetic boy was eager and bright again. The trouble was that he was sensitive to eggs. At school he had been eating, three or four of them every morning and it was enough to knock...
...blind people who have received dogs from "The Seeing Eye" go to Morristown for a month's course. Mrs. Eustis has found that most of the blind need a "mental housecleaning" before anything else. The eight members of each month's class at "The Seeing Eye," are first "built up" psychologically, encouraged to find their way in familiar surroundings. Then the blind student gets a dog whose harness, equipped with a semirigid, U-shaped handle, is sensitive to the slightest human touch. With an instructor at hand, the student tests his dog in Morristown traffic. When at month...