Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told physicians meeting in Manhattan last week how he had used psychoanalysis to relieve 100 cases of asthma which had not responded to routine medical treatment. Two main factors which cause asthma, said Dr. Deutsch, are: 1) an underlying susceptibility of the lungs or respiratory tract; 2) a psychological shock. When a psychoanalyst discovers that psychological shock is the precipitating cause, he explains it to the patient, said Dr. Deutsch, and the asthma often disappears. "That there is an emotional background for asthma," he remarked, "does not mean there are no allergic factors. The former may render the individual . . . more...
Schizophrenia. Nourishment of the brain depends upon two important substances: sugar and oxygen. Modern treatment for schizophrenia is shockingly severe. When a schizophrenic is given insulin, his brain gets little sugar and shock ensues. Given metrazol, a drug with a camphor-like action, he goes into convulsions, stops breathing, shock ensues. Such shock blots out hallucinations, or delusions of persecution. Main trouble with insulin or metrazol treatment, however, is that the profundity and length of the shock cannot be easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental...
Those who sensed quickly what had happened rolled off the cars. Frozen to their seats with shock and fear, the others held on until it was too late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until...
...have Hitler's fanatical face staring at us from the New Year's first issue of TIME, so soon after a season associated with the spirit of "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men," would be a shock to the sensibilities of all decent-hearted people and an insult to the democracy that is our country's most glorious tradition...
...Public Health, together with his brother Philip, professor of Industrial Hygient, were the first to put the idea of an iron lung across to the public. Due to their efforts 11 years ago, physicians have been able to save an incalculable number of cases of infantile paralysis, electric shock, gas of drug poisoning, acute alcoholism, and drowning...