Las interrelaciones de los fenómenos síquicos y somáticos fue percibida desde la más
remota antigüedad. Conceptos filosóficos y una práctica médica basada en el empirismo y …

Fifteen years ago Dr. William R. Houston presented a paper before the American College of
Physicians dealing with the physician himself as a therapeutic agent. 1 He felt that, with the …

Las interrelaciones de los fenómenos síquicos y somáticos fue percibida desde la más
remota antigüedad. Conceptos filosóficos y una práctica médica basada en el empirismo y …

The Lahey Clinic, Boston the viewpoint of rela- EVERETT D. KIEFER tionships between the
medical profession and the public. Needles1 has stated," The great number of people who …

Stress, according to the definition in the dictionary that most aptly applies to medicine, is," to
put into straits or difficulties; distress." Stress, as defined by Selye, 1" is essentially the rate of …

The recognition of functional gastrointestinal diseases depends essentially on certain
positive features characteristic of them. When there are evidences of associated functional …

M EDICINE, often called the healing art, has in the course of events and especially during
recent years made striking scientific advances. The art of medicine, in contrast to the science …

The irritable colon is a disturbance in the function of the large bowel, characterized
physiologically by uncoordinated abnormal motor activity of the colon and clinically by …

IN THE past 50 years there has been a tremendous shift in the causes of disease. Disease
due to disturbance of function resulting from emotional disorder has gained apace while …

FATIGUE is an almost universally occurring symptom. Every busy clinician encounters it
daily as the principal or secondary complaint among a number of his patients. Nervousness …