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Word: symptoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Given a standard (25 micrograms) dose of LSD 25, the patient first shows the symptoms of an addict of hashi He starts giggling or crying, soon switches to silence punctuated by an occasional scream. He trembles, sweats, and shows every symptom of terrible anxiety. Then he goes into one of several "experiences": ¶ Patients can often recall and re-experience their childhood in clear detail. Wrote one woman: "I realized that I was reliving an incident that occurred when I was quite small, on holiday ... I was not in the least surprised to see my hand and arm [become] quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dream Stuff | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

Asked whether McCarthy has weakened the State Department, Fairbank termed the Wisconsin Senator a symptom. "The intellectuals are sheep hypnotized by a snake. The loss of China gave the United States a sense of insecurity. It is this lack of self-confidence which McCarthy can prey upon. The thing to worry about is not McCarthy, but the American people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Says US Should Recognize Communist China | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

...given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount's publicity department calls "the largest film set in motion-picture history." DeMille feels that the present trend toward Bible movies is a symptom that "the world is beginning to realize how deep the trouble is that it is in, and that there is only one way out-the law laid down by Moses and its interpretation by Jesus and Mohammed and other great religious leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scripture on Wide Screen | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...perhaps for the first time in months. There is no thought that chlorpromazine is any cure for mental illness, but it can have great value if it relaxes patients and makes them accessible to treatment. The extremely agitated or anxious types often give up compulsive behavior, a surface symptom of their illness. It is, says Dr. Scull, as though the patients said, "I know there's something disturbing me, but I couldn't care less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wonder Drug of 1954? | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...hands and feet were blue and cold; she perspired so heavily that her bedclothes had to be changed soon after she fell asleep; her blood pressure skyrocketed and plummeted inexplicably; when she had a temper tantrum, which was often, she broke out in red blotches. But her strangest symptom sounded like something out of a fairy tale: no matter how hard she cried, there were no tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Crying Without Tears | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

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