The Progress
Of Medicine
Prepared by Science Digest
(Second of a Series)
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THE TB PERSONALITY
Ambitious people whose lives j
are spent in an unremitting fight
to reach the top, so they will not
feel crushed by the weight of au
thority over them, are often vic
tims of coronary heart disease.
Anxious, sensitive, love-hungry
persons are apt to have “blushing j
stomaches"—ulcers and their dan- ■
ger.
Escapists—individuals who al-'
ways try to run away from diffi- j
cult situations and who live in.
fear of more dominant personal-i
ities—are prone to “accidental” j
injuries. Unconsciously, they re
sort to a self-inflicted wound as
an excuse for retiring from life’s j
battle.
It is the same for asthma, obes-!
ity, insomnia, headache, rheuma-:
tism, and a host of other ailments
and conditions.
• Yes, it is becoming widely rec-;
ognized by medical men that the
chronic disease you have or think
you have, or that is apt to threaten
you in the future, may be closely
connected with your personality
type.
And now comes “The Lancet,”
British medical magazine, with an
editorial suggestion that early tu
berculosis, though a germ disease,
may be an affliction of the mind
and spirit as well as the body.
There is a mystery about early
tuberculosis. Frequently it is of
the sort called “indolent,” because
neither the disease nor the pa
tient seems to be able to make up
its mind to get in and fight. This
“phoney war,” as “The Lancet”
terms it, may drag on for a long
time. The patient goes to bed,
seems to recover perfect health,
gets up, has a depressing minor
setback. He is “off color”—not ex
actly sick, not exactly well.
Suddenly there is a flare-up.
The disease begins to eat at the
lungs. The tissues fight back,
throwing up walls of granulation
tissue to isolate the invader—
“scorched earth” “The Lancet”
calls it. Rapidly things get very
much better or very much worse.
In either case, the real war is on
and the patient himself adopts a
more definite, less disheartened
attitude.
All this, “The Lancet” points
out, is strikingly similar to what
goes on in that family of mental
ailments known as the psycho
neuroses.
In the early stgaes of both TB
and psychoneurosis, the patient
ignores or rationalizes his symp
toms.
Both tend to last a long time—
they “run their course,” seldom
yielding to quick treatments.
Both are apt to be touched off
by severe emotional upsets, and
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both seem to require emotional re
orientation, the establishment of
a new attitude toward life, for re
covery.
And — both often exist in the
same person.
It would seem, from “The Lan
cet’s” suggestions, that the TB
personality-type is an indolent
one. He fights tuberculosis germs
by the dangerous course of ap
peasement followed by all-out
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