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Medical students’ disease — which has also been called “nosophobia,” meaning “fear of disease” — first gained attention in the mid-1960s after the publication of two articles from prominent psychiatric departments.

One of the unfortunate consequences of nosophobia is that a victim of it not only renders her own life miserable, but she unfortunately affects the happiness of every member of the household.

Modern conditions unfortunately favor the easy development of nosophobia in young wives.

To the victim of nosophobia this suggestive knowledge is a constant terror and an ever present nightmare.

To none of these other forms, however, is attached the same degree of seriousness by the laity as they attach unjustly to nosophobia.