A smart Army doctor who last year made news by describing the symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis.
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless...
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