Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes certain organs overactive; the patient's personality determines which organs will be affected. The kind of personality, rather than the kind of shock, is the key. The same kind of shock (e.g., death of a relative or loss of a job) might give one type of man stomach ulcers, another, ulcerative colitis. In the current New York State Journal of Medicine, Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin wrapped up some classifications...
...Stomach Ulcers. Victims are aggressive, try to dominate other people, mold their environment to suit themselves. They are self-conscious and have strong likes and dislikes. Their eyes are sullen, their mouths firm; they have a "lean and hungry" look...
Double Trouble. If a patient has two kinds of psychosomatic disease, it may be because he has overlapping personalities, or because one disease sets the other one in motion. Examples: high blood pressure often follows hyperthyroidism, hyperthyroidism often follows stomach ulcers; high blood pressure may follow or precede stomach ulcers...
...coldly comforting thought: Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin found only two cases of the same person with both hyperthyroidism and cardiospasm, only one with both high blood pressure and cardiospasm, none of cardiospasm plus colonic disorders, none of stomach ulcer plus nonspecific ulcerative colitis...
...Vitus' dance. 2. Schizophrenia. 3. Stomach ulcers. 4. Epilepsy. 5. Sleeping sickness...