Show NO SYMPATHY FOR NEUROTIC medical man has placed them in a class that might be called hypocrites dont uso use tho the word rheumatism for it means nothing the same may ho be said of neurosis according to dr louis casamajor chief of tho van clinic and instructor in neurology at columbia university in an address at bloomingdale hospital now New york rheumatism Is a term which which has boon been spread in popular and indeed in medical use in such a thin layer to cover such a large number of conditions that it has ceased longor longer to have a diagnostic and conveys now no more real meaning than does the original word pain tor for which it Is substituted tho the same may be said ot of neuritis merely an I 1 other way of saying pain an ox explanation plana which explains nothing and when combined with the iha foregoing in rheumatic neurosis we wa have a term of sut suf focient inaccuracy to satisfy the moot moat fastidious neurotic doctor casamayor casa major malor went on to assert a critical study of a neurotic persons talk quickly reveals the fact that it Is s a health of details with no point for or it if he should get the point ho he couil cease to be a neurotic possibly ho he might be something worse doctor casamajor calan calls neurosis an asset every no neurotic has hai something to gain by being a neurotic and he hd c basea to be so when wen 1 this element of gain disappears at best it gives the individual nn an excuse tor for leading a more or less easy life surrounded by tho the thy which civilized people feel to Is due the sick alck |