Medicine: Mind over Matter

Latest findings by psychosomatic medicine men on the interaction of body and soul in causing disease:

Monday Morning Virus? Emotional factors may be as potent as a virus in causing the common cold, said Virologist Robert J. Huebner of the U.S. Public Health Service. Volunteers, wrote Dr. Huebner in Public Health Reports, got equally severe cold symptoms regardless of whether they received nose drops containing viruses, or drops of harmless, virus-free material.

"Psychological tests showed a rather significant association of high gullibility scores with complaints of upper respiratory illness," said Dr. Huebner. "Our findings...

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