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Rarity of Hay Fever, Asthma, and Rheumatoid Arthritis in Contrast to Relative Frequency of Duodenal Ulcer in a Psychiatric Hospital

OTTO F. EHRENTHEIL, M.D.

A.M.A. Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1957;77(2):178-186.

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The low incidence of some of the commoner medical disorders in a psychiatric hospital has many practical and theoretical implications. If one has worked, as I have, for several years in an allergy outpatient clinic of a large general hospital, one is especially impressed by the low incidence of allergy of the respiratory tract encountered in psychiatric patients. In spite of the published literature concerning this fact, I have made it my special interest to investigate every sneeze I heard on the wards of the neuropsychiatric VA Hospital, Bedford, Mass., during the fall hay-fever seasons. On practically every occasion it turned out to have been a nurse, secretary, aide, doctor, or other employee, but very seldom a patient. In this paper there will be presented (1) a short review of the literature dealing with the frequency of psychosomatic diseases among psychotics; (2) a report on observations in the VA Hospital, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Bedford, Mass.

From the Veterans Administration Hospital, Bedford, Mass., and the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept. 17, 1956.

Physician, Medical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital; Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine.