Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Anna O. was an intelligent girl of 21, who, while nursing her father during a fatal illness, suddenly developed paralysis of her right arm and both legs. To Dr. Breuer's amazement, when he asked her questions under hypnosis, she explained to him the origin of her symptoms, one by one. While nursing her father, she had suppressed a swarm of impulses as frivolous, selfish or immoral. And each suppressed desire had somehow turned into a physical symptom...
...from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically "symptom free," required no further injections...
...Crimson is open to the charge that it is "paring toenails" in attacking a symptom. But such strategy is motivated by the fact that the symptom is more vulnerable than the cause. Such tactics can at least supplement the long-range drive for examination reform. In attacking the symptom, the Crimson does not ignore the more fundamental aspects of the problem; it merely demands an immediate, practical course of action. That action is a frontal attack on the tutoring schools themselves...