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This final article on hypochondria is by one of the men who make money-and lose time-by it: the doctors.

It is rather a harsh judgment: but see what YOU think.

By A VISITING SPECIALIST

PARTLY blame us doctors for the large mimber of hypochon drines. We haven't the courage to say "No."

Most of us are human enough to want to ingratiate ourselves with important

Then starts the vicious circle

This crentes doubt and surple (birk of the number of times we pre- Cat in the patient who may, at will have to swallow,

truth is 12 ing kept finem him, Is We would choke. also mid, nothing to the reputa- Then ad there.

The doctor, having once scribed for Ü hypochondrue, worst, Juck that The sinister If we did we would eat .lle.

cannot later tell him that these is nothing the matter and refuse to prescribe again.

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The mild forms are prob this way to believe he has a real al jy mcrutagen

at least by elidhood nio lycoddling not al A tremendous waste of drugs faulty upbringing.

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und rasul, disturbs is iturri hythm. No amoun

f medleine Kun comert this mental afiitude fan wonder if there may Ard that leads to an and well-to-do private he; for 11 pabent 1inite ;

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attention portent quædkm:- patients. We would rather finds them une use and promptly troussed car the body Wielt and a healthy surgery to vern- 11te en lerding ide.

This deney to conces DO WE KNOW torte un of the general is just what the TOO MUCH?

But have to tell them there return to the is nothing wrong with them plain. because, after all, no one

likes throwing money away. IS THERE

In any case, we earn O wealthy hypochondriacs by the way in which We put

ANY DANGER?

up with our poor ones, For THE self-esteem of some young doctors nakts vem prone to most of us have a good

reach a diagnosh which inay tol many patients with nothing b, justifleet. wrong with them - except hypochondria,

WHAT IS

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PEOPLE nowadays know more thoughts your what your tongue does when you TV about health and liness thon through reading, radio, and for eating or ever before. I am sure that is a at using it talking

K od thing.

In a few moments it will frei big for your mouth and you wift be swallowing A lot ol saliva,

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Other dockers who refuse in honesty in make a diagnosis Think about blinking--and in a

now with yotir eyes IN real lness exists,

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tales uf using moment or twu your eyelids will

red heart, be fluttering. Per Vonk debajoy, grumbling ap-

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prople know what praday. Abri its dysprepla, and happens when they the evitable "touch of blood swallowing. It becomes almig

impossible to swallow. pysre

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morbid TT is the constant

This I dangers. The patient fear of illnesa. Hypo-

aid by one doctor then he has a chondriars reprately need grumbling appendix" is just as renssurance that they are likely to be told by another

heart that be has "nervous dyspepsia." not suffering from disease, early cancer, tuber. culosis. ulcers, FL23) RO

They demand X-rays, nure X-rays, and confirm- atory X-rays. They read- ly agree to even unnecessary operations, and they often insist en an exploratory operation on the basis that nothing can be lost by having a look inside.

True hypochondria is extremely serious illness. Someone or other has said:

There is always some thing wrong with the the patient who goes to Poctor with nothing the matter."

There is something very wrong with the true hypo-, chondriac. He is mentally all and he suffers a great deal. Fortunately full-blown hypochondria is rare. It is the milder forms which

chiefly plague family doc- T

tors.

think about

Normal people can come to no harm and there is no good rea- sa 1 deprive them of all the inkærmation they ask for.

The hypochondriacs are dif- They are people who rent, take medical information and

misinterpret it.

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There is really only swer, as musst doctors nowa- days are finding out.

It is quite an essу for us family doctors. our hypochondriacs psychiatrists.

answer-

Wc pass the

I know very few patients in- deed who can swallow my pill

lo without exceding drick to make them go down.

It is just as well that when That is where they properly sitting down to a meal we don't belong.

Giles ends the series with an unusual offer to readers

announcement that luminous clocks and watches produce more radioactivity than H-bombs puts another item on the You'll-get-so-and-so if you all eat-smoke-or-have-so-and-so list.

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True hypochondria one of the hardest of conditions to treat and complete cure is often im- possible. Treatment may have to be undertaken in a mental hospital.

WHAT CAN DOCTORS DO?

BUT let us stick to the

milder forms. The run-of- the-mill hypochondriacs get considerable satisfaction if a real disease is diagnosed (though it rarely is and most of them outlive their doctors), but the satisfac tion does not last and they get no benefit from any treatment.

In fact if a doctor is fool enough to foist some speci- fic allment on a hypochon- driac ho puts him in an in- vincible position.

He will go through lifo challenging doctors to get

him better. And, of course, no doctor will over suc- ceed.

In

Not much, There is no polat a hypochondriac telling thare la rothing physically wrong with him because he will merely change doctors, and go en changing until he finds one who will give him what he wants

a real lines.

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Such patients take up a lot of

dootor's time. To get rid of

them most of he prescribe some

KOWLOON drug or other, stomach powders,

vitamine by the boxful and of course that good old (and quito Iuɛnless) standby-the tonie;

In its search for the best hypochondriac the China Mail is considering* offering as a prize e free and unaccompanied holiday in Monte Bello for the neatest answers to the following ques- tions:-

1. What do doctors say you'll get it you smicke eighty-odd cigarettes day: (a) A packel? (b) C. of the L. (c) Housemaid's knce?

2. What do doctors say you'll catch if you eat: (a) Eggs and bacon? (b) Anything nice? 8. Which part of 'your Inside will go for Burton if you drink gin?

4. How much of your gin will go for a Burton If your triends know you've got some?

* (Coneldering.)

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5. When did you last see your: (a) Doctor? (b) Tongue?

8. If your boy comes home covered spots do you (a) Give him a thick car? (b) give him a horse pill?

7. If you are radioactive can you get: (a)

Luxembourg? (b) A.F.N.?

Serve you right in any case.

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this priest!

By GEORGE GALE

TOT very far from Cyprus someone once went to a

mountain and began speaking:--

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for thoirs is the kingdom of heaven.

A good deal further away, un am island in the Indian Ocean, there is a man confined behind guards, restive, mutten, not poor but highly proud in spielt, who calls himself Blessed.

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Makarios means the Blessed One. This man, this priest, assumes as

(18 extravagantly medieval Pope not only spiritual authority over his congregations and clergy but political power also.

He claims,

and we, weakly, have allowed his claim, to speak politically for the people of Cyprus. He has agitated, and täll recently we, weakly, have let hani ugitate, as a partisan politician. Only when his negotiations becam. false and his agitation illegal, when he connivesa at serruriam, dat we nanish him.

He had brought more misery 10 Cyprus than any bungling British administration. He had brought cowed silence, empty streets, nervous cales, the bullet always in the back.

And now in England, voltes are raised: "Bring him back. Makarios is the saly man we can negotiate__with."

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

They may be run:furled, but the mother of the twenty soldiers "bamed to death in the Cyprus forests will not be com forted by the return of Makarus, the Blessed One, the man of Gox, whost monasteries were arms dumps, whose priests were ogents of terrorism.

Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit tho

earth.

Is Makarios, the Blessed One, meek — who would dispose himself of the future of this mice-happy istand?

The meek are these who till its fields, who crợp ls vineyards, who tend its cafes,

The meek don't inherit anything in Uis world. Nobody ever hears the nicek for they do not mask with loud volcés and smoking guns and bombs thrown at funerals.

But the ingek will have more prace in their flelds and vine- yards and cafes without terrorists, without Makarios, without Grecer.

This men State of Greze, this yapping travesty of Its great name, tids nickely nation that dally mocks its ancient glory, has never owned Cyprus

The Turks look Cyprus from Venice and then in 1878 Britain rend Cyprus from the auitan.

We annexed it in 1914 and offered it to Greece the next year. Circeve declined the offer,

Now this tin-pot ile Balkan State wants II, or at any rate Its fin-pol Balkan politicians do and its mob dows; and now the bin-put churchmen of Cyprus want it and the Cypriot mob is out. Great words of justice flow out of little, contuminated mouths. And the lovers of the splendour that three thousand years ago was Greece, the gentle civilised men of classicat education, tako up the side of a bunch of Balkan agitators.

But the meek? The meek in their dusty villages? The gentlo men who wish to live in their land, on their fields?. Who hears them, when the air is filled with shouting and bombs?

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled.

The Blessed One, Makarios, hungers and thirsts. He hungers and thirsts after power and glory; and the righteous are filled with bullets.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain

mercy.

-"They, may obtain mercy in heaven; where also the meek may inherit their earth. They will not obtain mercy in Cyprus.

For the blessed in Cyprus is the archbishop; and Balkan politicians do not show mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart. There is no purity of heart in politicians. And where was the purity

heart 40

In another Blessert print of Cyprus—in Makharlotis, the man klekeď out of Britain?

His nome nenns "Blessed as of old,” and his diellonary Usted words like ambush, Juck-knife, stick-bomb.

Blessed are the peace-makers. And is his Beatitude, Makarios, peace-maker? WAB Makarios ever interested in peace? He knew his priče, and if he could not get it, then he wanted war, not pence,

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake,

Was It for his righteouSTILAS that we sent him to the Seychelles? Is it for his righteousness' salce that he calls himself Blessed?

Has he been persecuted and reviled for Christ's sake? Is this man, this head of a church, a true pastor to his people?

The duties of a priest, grand or smail, are simple and imown to men; and they do not include incitement to violence, the supply of guns,

the connivance at terrorism.

This easy, pleasant land could smile again, and the meele could till their fielde in peace.

Makarios could even return again—as a Christian, and pastor to his people, But not as Ethmarch, not as political boss, not ag companion of murderers and propagandist of hate.

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