The patient, a 45-year-old salesman, was convinced that he was a pretty sick man. For one thing, he had become obsessed by the fear of death. Sometimes he imagined that he was losing his mind. He complained of a continuous ringing in his left ear, and his nose felt numb. He had no appetite, couldn't sleep, and occasionally felt as if he were about to faint.
Two psychiatrists at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital diagnosed the patient's trouble as middle age.
Medicine has no cure for middle age, but it has learned to ease the symptoms. The sick salesman was given treatments of testosterone...
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