A 46-year-old African American man presented with weakness and numbness in both legs and pain in the left upper chest of 3 weeks’ duration. He noted no change in urinary or bowel habits,but he had anorexia with more than 30 pounds of weight loss over 3 months. He had no fever or night sweats and no cardiac, respiratory, or gastrointestinal symptoms, but he recalled having generalized painless l...

By H. J. Eysenck. (Penguin, 5s.) This is the third of Professor Eysenck's attempts to bring psychology to the masses but here he rides his hobby-horses almost to extinction. After one chapter in whict1 he describes his own laboratory and the techniques he uses, he goes on to describe his own concepts of Personality. This is followed by a comparison between Behaviour Therapy and Psychoanalysis i...

B. K. was admitted to this hospital on 30th April, 1924, suffering from the typical symptoms of vesical calculus; he gave the following interesting history. Six months previously he had had an attack of renal colic, which was relieved by some subcutaneous injections, but retention of urine followed; a medical practitioner then passed a rubber catheter and withdrew the urine; he then filled and ...

CLINICAL INTRODUCTION A 46-year-old man was brought to the ED after being found in an enclosed sauna minimally responsive, clammy and confused. On arrival he was alert, smiling and recalled sniffing a ‘herbal’ bottle followed by nausea, dizziness, poor balance, inability to stand up, shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating and confusion. He had a past history of back pain. He had blue-purpl...