Medicine: Psychiatrists in Washington

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To study such "cranial-vertebral dynamics," Dr. Abraham Myerson, whom Harvard last week appointed clinical professor of psychiatry, and Dr. Julius Loman of Boston contrived a pressure gauge which registers brain squeeze when a hollow needle is pushed into the carotid artery (in the neck). Thus they have already found that pressure in the head is lowered when a person rests on his hands and knees. That posture hence may give temporary relief to some kinds of headaches and dizziness. Lying flat on the back raises the pressure on the brain. A dose of adrenaline also raises pressure. Coffee lowers pressure.

7 Points of Happiness. So long as a person:

1) Is satisfied with his own looks, no matter what others may think;

2) Does not worry about being weak or sickly;

3) Takes charge of situations where he can, and willingly follows the leader where he must;

4 ) Is manly (or womanly);

5) Charms the opposite sex as much as he desires;

6) Asks no more of the future than he can reasonably expect to earn from that future;

7) Has a private philosophy about death and future life;

So long as a person can remain contented about these points, reasoned Dr. Paul Schilder of Manhattan, that person will not go crazy.

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