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Show Your Health . ,' . : Doctors Sometimes Fail :To ObserveNeurosis ' tamp to cover coat of handling and mailing, to The Salt Laka Tribune-Telegram Horn Berrloa Bureau, Salt Lake City 10, Utah. By Jamea W. Bartoa, MJX Physicians who have bean practicing prac-ticing for yean win agree with the statement that - aa students they war ahown many of the rarer rar-er type jf di-aaaa di-aaaa In medlcin and surgery and few. of the coin-. moa everyday! type. While this is perhaps natural. nat-ural. Dr. Walter C. Alvarea. Mayo clinic. In the Iowa Stat Modi-' its) cal Society Jour- Dr. Bartoa nal, Dea Moines, states that al- though the family physician I frequently helped In making a diagnoala by knowing the patient and hia background, the average physician does not think enough of a neurosis. (A method 1 a condition In which the mind and the amotion are a factor la causing caus-ing the physical symptom present.) pres-ent.) Physician sometimes fall to notice a neurosis among their own relatives. great importance. Dr. Alva res points out that emotional die-turbancea die-turbancea can cause symptoms similar to physiological abnormalities. abnormali-ties. But a physiological cause revealed by a laboratory teat Is usually considered the real cause. What the physicians will see very day will be nervous men and women with negative reaction reac-tion to testa of all sort and all aorta of distress everywhere backaches, headaches. painful monthly period, ga pressure, fatigue, fa-tigue, and lack of energy. Instead In-stead of making all the laboratory tests, and, if- nothing la found, just calling the patient a neurotic, hia mental and emotional reaction reac-tion should first be considered, because any little abnormality found by the laboratory might be considered the real or fundamental fundamen-tal cause of hia symptoms and given full attention instead of the mail attention It deserves. , This is noto aay that a complete com-plete physical examination should not be made, but that the nervous and emotional patient should be studied more from the standpoint of his nervousness and emotionalism emotional-ism aa a human being and lea from the standpoint of any little-physical little-physical defect or alight abnormality abnor-mality found by laboratory methods. Two condition often caused by emotional disturbances and not recognised a such are migraine (one-aided headache) and distress of stomach and Intestine not related re-lated to meal or bowel movement. It has keen estimated that there r more persona with constipation constipa-tion than there are without It For Information on thia subject, end today for Dr. Barton's helpful help-ful booklet entitled "Constipation." To obtain It, send 10c and a sc |