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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
So that in eradicating ragweed, some people have tried to do it,

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
it doesn't do very much good just to get it out of your own back yard, or the street on which you live.


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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Because the first wind storm can bring in showers and showers of the ragweed pollen.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
It's almost got to be a regional or national attempt.

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Almost total.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
reduce the ragweed. Uh air-conditioning is some help I believe isn't it? I mean if...

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Yes air-conditioning is a of a great help, in that you can control the air in which the, uh the room in which the patient sleeps very often

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
if they can have a comfortable night's rest they can battle with their symptoms during the day.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
And then it is true though that these are real difficulties, they are not imaginary at all

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
No they are not imaginary, they're very real.

{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Not even psychosomatic, are they?

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Well, I, I'm glad you asked that, I could talk for two, three days about that, if you'd let me, but I'll try and condense it,

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
uh you see every patient has a psyche as well as a soma, you can't divorce one from the other

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
uh, um medicine, good medicine has always tried to treat the whole patient.

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
I, I think that any illness, or any disability

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
is uh exaggerated or minimized by the psyche of the patient who has it

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
or the temperament, shall we say, or personality

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Some people tend to exaggerate, others tend to, uhm . . . belittle their symptoms.

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
Some people tend to use their symptoms as weapons, or as thrones

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
and so, uh I think you must be very very careful in distinguishing,

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
between the cause of a disease, which is not psychic, or psychogenic

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
and and the effects that are superimposed

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
by the virtue of the personality, emotion, temperament, or psyche of the individual who has the disease,

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
uh I think it's unfortunate that the idea was so firmly seated in many people's minds

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{SPEAKER name="Leone N. Claman"}
that all allergy was an emotional thing, uh it is not so. Definitely not so.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
That's one of the reasons why the.

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