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Aches & Pains. "Pain is a common symptom of psychoneurosis." When a pa tient announces that "she aches all over," Dr. Alvarez begins to suspect that she is a bundle of nerves. His suspicion is confirmed if she is unable to tell him her main complaint, grumbles about trivialities, trembles, answers his questions irrelevantly, fails to let him finish a sentence...
Heart and Arthritis. A pain above the stomach is sometimes diagnosed as a symptom of angina pectoris, peptic ulcer or gastritis, when the ailment actually is arthritis. If the pain does not come from fast walking, stair-climbing or anger, heart trouble can be ruled out; if there are no symptoms connected with eating, ulcers also are eliminated...
...Cure. In contrast to the well-known acute form, chronic patients usually have little if any fever and may report any combination of 34 different symptoms. The most common symptom is tiredness...
This deal still left two of the "big four" U.S. orchestras on a sustaining program basis: the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra. But musicians viewed the Rubber and Motors patronage as a portentous symptom. In the postwar world, industry might replace private wealth as music's chief patron, might even succeed in putting fine concert music and opera on a paying basis...
Dawson concluded that more than a kitchen cleanup was needed. "These conditions," said he, "were merely a visible symptom of an administrative breakdown." He made a few recommendations: 1) superintendents should be "able hospital administrators" not necessarily experienced in mental hospitals; 2) food should be prepared under a dietitian, not a chef whose only experience has been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged...