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Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...
...psychiatrist and accept him as a "supporting presence," he is likely to lose the outward signs of his neurosis-a stiff leg, deafness, forgetfulness, phobia. But if the psychiatrist neglects him or ships him off too soon to another station where he gets some thoughtless rebuff, the neurotic symptom will return. Bad news from home sometimes causes a relapse. "Time is necessary for the patient . . . to test the human environment's sincerity. . . . The Army is not conducive to such testing...
Whether the special bills, schemes, promises and bustling in State capitals could solve the problem or not (the Army & Navy plainly thought not), the worrywart frenzy of state activity was a symptom of the nation's temper. In blunt words, voters had told their legislators-both state and national-that something must be done...
...about half of them have some prostate trouble. An estimated 17 to 20% of men past 50 develop prostatic cancer. This also happens to dogs and lions. The dangerous gland, situated at the lower part of the bladder next to the exit, rarely gives much warning (common first symptom: difficulty in urinating) until the cancer is beyond surgery...
Sister Kenny believes that the chief symptom of infantile paralysis is spasm (involuntary muscle contraction), which bends joints and stretches the opposing muscles. She thinks the spastic muscles are the diseased ones, begins by treating the spasm, then re-educates the stretched muscles, which she says are merely "alienated," not paralyzed. Her critics' explanation of the disease is almost exactly the opposite...