Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more severe than classic angina. Seizures last from 45 seconds to more than 20 minutes, and often occur in remarkably regular cycles, perhaps at the same time each day. The condition is extremely difficult to diagnose. A physical examination reveals no abnormalities. An exercise tolerance test causes no pain. Results of laboratory tests are normal. Chest X rays and routine electrocardiograms give no indication of the disorder. Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers...
Sometimes the victim" may convince his doctor that his ailment is painfully real by having an attack in the doctor's office. Then an electrocardiogram taken during the course of his pain will register telltale changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The ailment is often progressive; eleven of Dr. Prinzmetal's patients eventually suffered major heart attacks. In all these cases, says Dr. Prinzmetal, the attacks struck the exact area of the heart in which the gripping pains of angina had earlier occurred...
...welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical disease entity. Clearly, hypnosis appears to draw on some unknown and, as yet, untapped reserve which acts as powerfully as any drug known, but with none of the disadvantages of drug administration...
Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a youth that was unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...
...region's wildlife and wild living, tells of a three-week solo canoe trip he made as a farewell gesture. Summoned by Bells, by John Betjeman. In a charming autobiography in verse, the author tells of a boyhood and young manhood that were unremarkable except for the pain, joy and insight that go with being a poet...