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...Buenaventura Jimenez Serra of the University of Michigan health service. He began to match records of students' allergies with the results of their entrance examinations. Last week Dr. Jimenez, just in time for the hay fever season, broadcast a consoling item. Allergy, said he, is a symptom of intelligence. On college achievement tests, he found, students suffering from hay fever, asthma and eczema rate five to ten percent higher than their non-allergic fellows...
...workers in the Viscose plant felt no ill effects from the gas, and some were only mildly sick. But, according to the Pennsylvania survey of 120 "men on the job . . . only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness...
...What Germans, to British horror, think of Jews, Britons think of the entire working class. Symptom: fake "eugenists" who glorify the bourgeoisie, pretend to prove the biological inferiority of workers...
...speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania will increase until his madness is so apparent that he must be isolated...
...Main symptom of Germany's bad condition is the increase of disease since 1933, as shown in the following table (the figures for 1938 cover only Germany proper, not territorial acquisitions...