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This would affect every business that was linked to a computer juid the commotion and hysteria tliat surrounded the Y2K bug were due to the present age s dependence on computers. For c.xamplc, it was feared that the go eminent s computer system would print social security checks with amounts seen in the year 1900 and that banks would calculate dividends based on interest rates from the year 1900. The problems could have been catastrophic. Fortunately, tlie response to the "potential Y2K disaster was effective in that most corrections or patches were made before the year 2000. However, these corrections were costly and required large amounts of money to be spent." ... 

Bartholomew, R.E. and Goode, E. 2000. Mass delusions and hysterias, highlights from the past millennium. Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 24, Number 3, May/June 2000, http //www.csicop.org/si/ 2000-05/delusions.html. 

Sruarr Clark, The Scientific Status of Demonology , in Vickers (ed.), Occult and Scientific Mentalities 351-74 Clark, Demons and Disease Clark, Thinkingwith Demons, 233-50 Daston and Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, esp. chs. 3, 4 MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam, 174 Michael MacDonald, Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case (1991), p. xxxii Erik Midelfort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford, Calif, 1992), 153-7 passim-, Webster, Paracelsus to Newton. 

MacDonald (ed.), Witchcraft and Hysteria-, Schleiner, Medical Ethics, 112. Kings MS i6, fos. 78 —80 Edmond, Forman s Vade-Mecum , 56 (source of discussion and citation). 

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London Edward Jorden and the Mary... 

Other dissociations are the altered states of consciousness seen in hypnosis and hysteria that have been likened to sleepwalking. The word somnambulism denotes not only sleepwalking per se, it also denotes those hypnotic trance states that impose a kind of sleepiness on susceptible subjects during waking. For Pierre Janet (and for Charcot, Freud, and the rest), this was the very essence of dissociation. The psychoanalytic model ascribed the same repressed libidinal wishes to the hypnotic somnambulist that it found to be the root cause of all dreaming. The fact of the matter is that any coordinated behavior is likely to invite the ascription of motive. If the subject is unconscious or nonconscious, then the motive must be unconscious too. 

Treatment with psychedelics has most often been described as ineffective in cases of hysterical neurosis and hysteria, stuttering neurosis, infantile personality, and long-term neurotic invalidism. Despite reported successes, compulsive syndromes, criminal psychopathy, and depressive states are also mentioned as contraindicated. The risks frequently have been considered too great for paranoids, severely depressed persons, outpatient psychotics and pre-psychotics, and those with a history of suicide attempts or who may be currently suicidal. However, as we have previously suggested (Masters and Houston, 1966), psychedelic therapy may be indicated in cases where suicide seems probable and imminent. By his being enabled to die symbolically and then be reborn, the patient s need to die may be subsequently eliminated. 

Mistletoe has hypotensive, cardiac-depressant, and sedative properties. Traditionally, it is used for high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, nervous tachycardia, hypertensive headache, chorea, and hysteria. 

Neurological Effects. Some psychological effects were reported in Vietnam veterans potentially exposed to 2,3,7,8-TCDD-contaminated herbicides. These included depression in Air Force and ground troop veterans (Levy 1988 Wolfe et al. 1985) and hypochondria and hysteria in Air Force veterans (Wolfe et al. 1985). In contrast, a more recent study did not find any association between 2,3,7,8-TCDD exposure and neurological or psychological diseases in Air Force personnel (USAF 1991). These... 

Bulb decoctions of Boophone disticha are used by the Zulu to treat headaches, chest and bladder pains and hysteria. The Sotho and Xhosa use bulbs as a dressing for circumcision and narcotics while the leaves are used for the treatment of skin diseases. Khai and San people use bulbs as arrow poison (43, 44, 45). In Zimbabwe, the bulb is used for constipation, bums, oedema, wounds, rash, dizziness and lucky charms (46). 

Protects against sickness, accidents and hysteria—medicinal for women. 

However, the development of this veterinary drug illustrates one of the clearest examples of public misconception and hysteria thrust upon society in recent years. This event was the November 1993 introduction of Monsanto... 

Indications Replete heat and fire toxins, exuberant heat in the three burners patterns. Septicemia, dysentery, pneumonia, acute urinary tract infections, ulcers, carbuncles, furuncles, boils, acute enteritis, acute icteric hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, encephalitis, acute conjunctivitis, acute pelvic inflammation, erysipelas, cellulitis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, urticaria, pruritus, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia, neurasthenia, and hysteria... 

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