We present four patients with first episode psychosis who were also negative to other clinical evaluations including thyroid functioning. Their psychotic symptoms were suspected to be induced by the arachnoid cyst and it was controlled by moderate dose antipsychotic administration. The diagnoses of these cases were atypical affective disorder, schizophrenia (paranoid type), delusional disorder ...

The physician is still the wonder-worker, the soothsayer, to whose reading of the entrails we resort when hard beset. We may scoff at him in health, but we send for him in pain. The judge, if you fall into his clutches, is still the Themis of the Greeks, announcing mystic dooms. You may not understand his words, but their effects you can be made to feel. Each of us is thus a man of mystery to t...