Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place, Dr. Wintrobe emphasized, anemia is no longer recognized as a disease, but only as a symptom of some other disease. As a result, a whole class of so-called "primary anemias" is being dropped from medical thinking, e.g., pernicious anemia is now known to be a metabolic upset in which the system fails to make proper use of vitamin B12. Once the cause of this or practically any other anemia is tracked down, the underlying complaint can be treated and the symptom usually disappears...
...more serious symptom of Freud's condition was his sudden passion for cocaine. "The essential constituent of coca leaves" had only recently been introduced into Europe, and young Freud went crazy over the "magical drug." Convinced that it was harmless, he gave it to his patients (one of whom died), pressed it on all his friends (including Martha), and himself took "very small doses of it regularly against depression and . . . indigestion." He wrote a paper describing "the most gorgeous excitement" it aroused in animals, and exulted in the "virility" it aroused in him. "Woe to you, my Princess, when...
...necessarily conducted by specialists after the work has been broken into parts. Policy made at the operational level is apt to be fragmentary, uncoordinated, contradictory. Between them, Dulles and Stassen are demonstrating that what Washington for 20 years thought was a law of administrative life was really a symptom of administrative illness...
Writes Sir Heneage in the Practitioner: "It would not be a particularly difficult feat...to produce quite a convincing thesis that the present lackadaisical outlook of the country, so repeatedly castigated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a symptom of chronic [barbiturate] intoxication...
Since 1935, the Metropolitan General Hospital in Windsor, Ont. has been keeping careful follow-up records on all patients treated for cancer. Main conclusion, as reported by Dr. Norman A. McCormick in the current Canadian Medical Association Journal: "Ample proof that this disease can be cured." Because five symptom-free years are the medical yardstick for cure, the study stops after 1947. Items...