Abstract
Stress, according definition in dictionary that most aptly applies medicine, is, to put into straits or difficulties; distress. Stress, as defined by Selye, 1 essentially rate of all wear and tear caused by life. An advertisement in a Sunday feature section for a soft drink, said have health-building properties, states in bold print that today's living puts new stresses on your whole body. Authors have used various terms in past such as functional disease, neurosis, psychosomatic or somatopsychic disease express same thought. A prominent pharmaceutical house in an excellent little booklet entitled Almost Every Patient 2 states that the belief that emotional or mental distress is more widespread than ever before has led poets and philosophers call this Age of Anxiety. Physicians have known for a long time that mental and emotional distress have something
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