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Psychosomatic Medicine 24:529-534 (1962)
© 1962 American Psychosomatic Society

Psychological State and Sputum Eosinophilia

Report of a Case

BEN BURSTEN M.D.1

1 Psychosomatic Service, Department of Psychiatry, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

The daily ward behavior of an asthmatic woman was observed and an attempt was made to relate behavior fluctuations with changes in the eosinophile content of the sputum produced during her attacks. It was noted that when she reacted in her usual self-sufficient manner there were few or no eosinophiles in her sputum; when she reagted* with marked dependence, helplessness, and lassitude, her sputum was laden with eosinophiles. On the basis of these observations, predictions about the eosinophile content of sputum produced by subsequent attacks were made with considerable success from a knowledge of her behavior patterns around the time of these attacks.

Submitted on November 28, 1961




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