Wednesday, August 12, 2009

suggests physical reasons for the disability

Hypothyroidism Treatment : There is a whole group of minor ailments which might be called occupational, like the waiter's flat feet. A medical textbook (Von Mering-Krehl: Internal Medicine) mentions a sickness dating from pre-typewriter days, called mogigraphy, the inability to write. Students, clerks in business firms, and others who spent long days pushing a pen across paper were its victims.
With the characteristic medical approach, the text suggests physical reasons for the disability: probably the penholder was too thin, or the pen itself was too sharp or too blunt. Not for a moment was it suggested that the victim might be protesting against his dreary lifelong task.
After much research, in the course of which he only rarely found a periostitis (inflammation of the bone) or a neuritis (inflammation of the nerve), a leading neurologist of the time came to the conclusion that "these individuals are neurasthenic" and probably worry and grief were involved and some such "psychic influences" as embarrassment and excitement. His verdict, by the way, was: incurable.

5 comments:

  1. She had never been ill except for the usual children's diseases. Her parents and one sister were well. There was no tuberculosis in her family.
    Her present illness had begun less than a year before, while she was living in California.

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  2. diagnosed as a bronchial catarrh resulting from nicotine poisoning. When she continued to complain of her unusual fatigue, the physician it to an inflammation of the genital organs and hinted that u gynecological operation might be unavoidable.

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  3. Alarmed by her rapid loss of weight, her friends insisted that she be X-rayed. The films revealed an extensive tubercular process in the right upper lung, with two cavities, signs of complete tissue destruction. A consultant was brought in who at once admitted her to a hospital for inicumothorax treatment, the injection of air into the chest to collapse and rest the diseased lungs.

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  4. Hypothyroidism: The mechanism of AGA is well known. In men, against a background of genetic predisposition (this does not imply that binding of alopecia at the nearest blood relatives) after puberty (immediately or after many years) exacerbated the sensitivity of hair follicles in the parietal area of the male sex hormone - dihydrotestosterone (DHT dec.). Male hormones called androgens, hence the name alopecia.

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  5. Yeast Infection : Passing the virus leads to the separation of biologically active substances and degradation products of cells, many of which are toxicologically on the nervous, cardiovascular and other systems of the body.

    Appear weak, 'split', headaches, pain in the eyeballs, especially when driving and pressing on them. Disturbing pains in muscles and joints, photophobia.

    Temperature rises, becomes more frequent heartbeat, breathing, reduces blood pressure, there is swelling, bleeding.

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