Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said nor implied that "Almost every patient who dies of carcinoma . . . has been diagnosed as a psychoneurotic" [TIME, June 21]. The dots delete the important words: "of the body or tail of the pancreas." This tumor . . . gives no physical signs and produces no symptoms other than a vague abdominal pain, and furthermore, defies all methods of diagnosis including X-ray and laboratory studies. Only surgical exploration will provide the answer...
...reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload themselves with responsibilities and then get tense when they find that they can't finish the outsize jobs they have tackled. Their "pernicious emotional states" make the arteries in their heads swell, causing the excruciating pain of migraine...
...Wolff offers an alibi, but no cure, to people with routine hangovers. The amount of alcohol consumed has little to do with the morning-after head pain, he says: it comes from fatigue and excitement. Heavy drinkers will applaud the Wolff theory: that whooping it up all night, without touching a drop, is enough to cause a hangover...
...than 20,000 cases have been reported in medical journals. In the current Connecticut State Medical Journal, Drs. Max L. Berlowe and Francis L. Herrick describe the results of 200 cases in the Grace-New Haven (Conn.) Community Hospital. Of the first 100 patients, 76% got complete relief from pain; of the second 100 patients, 96%. Only complications: headache and short periods of nausea and vomiting (possibly not due to the anesthetic). There was no dangerous lowering of blood pressure, a frequent complication in childbirth...
...himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...