Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain

New York, Paul B. Hoeber, (1943). 6th Printing, orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii, 488 pp, Small spot to top-page-edge, small stain to flyleaf & a very small hole to one page margin.. Minor rubbing, some top-page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Ways in Which Emotion Can Affect the Digestive Tract; The Making of the Diagnosis from a Good History; Importance of Uncovering the Patient's Fear or His or Her Real Reason for Consulting a Physician; What Can Be Learned from the Way in Which the Patient Tells the History; Helps in Sizing Up the Patient; Useful Observations to be Made as the Physician Deals with a Patient; Problems That Come Up in Planning the Examination of the Patient; The Handling of the Nervous Patient; The Problem of Combating Disturbing Diagnoses Previously Made; On Telling the Truth to Patients; Helpful Points in the Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain; The Chronic "Dyspeptic" & Some of the Things that May be Wrong With Him; Constitutional Inadequacy;The Nervous Breakdown & its Causes; Insanity & Related Troubles; Types of Neurotic Persons; The Stormy Menopause; Insomnia; Constipation; The Irritable Bowel Syndrome commonly called Mucous or Spastic Colitis; Food Sensitiveness or Allergy; Flatulence; Abdominal Bloating not due to Gas; Pseudo-Appendicitis; Pseudo-Ulcer; Pseudo-Cholecystitis and the Postcholecystectomy Syndrome; Regurgitation or "Nervous Vomiting"; Headache; Migraine & Migraine Equivalents; Gastritis; Nervous or Functional or Puzzling Types of Diarrhea; Abdominal Diseases Associated with Pelvic Troubles in Women; Miscellaneous Syndromes; The Treatment of Nervous, Psychopathic, Poorly Adjusted, Much Troubled or Overworked & Tired Persons.

Alvarez, Walter C. - Nervousness, Indigestion and Pain