Psychological Factors in Disease
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In all branches of Medicine, there is growing appreciation of the importance of emotional factors in disease, and contemporary literature shows this trend very clearly. As an example, Sir Maurice Cassidy has recently stated: " Beyond all question the most important advance in medical progress of recent years has been the recognition that psychological factors play an overwhelming part in the causation of invalidism, taken as a whole. It is now known that
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