and their pulse is abnormally rapid at rest as well as on exertion." The disease "may progress
relentlessly, the untreated patient becoming emaciated, intensely nervous, delirious -- evendisoriented -- and the heart eventually 'racing itself to death.'" These authors also point out that "no (^)
treatment for hyperthyroidism has been discovered that combats its basic cause," even though a
number of forms of treatment are available. Within the context of treatment, the following
"overview of nursing management" is recommended:
The objectives of nursing care are to assist the patient in overcoming his symptoms and to help him
return to a euthyroid condition. The nurse maintains a calm manner and understands that much of
his nervousness and anxiety is beyond his control. Activities to lessen the irritability of the nervous
system may include the following: protecting the patient from stressful experiences, such as
upsetting visitors or the presence of annoying or veenvironment; and encouraging the patient to enjoy pleasant music, light television entertainment,ry ill patients; providing a cool and uncluttered
and interesting and relaxing hobbies. [fn 41]
This is hardly a description of the White House situation room.
During the course of this debate, newspapers printed summaries of substances which are thought to
have an influence on thyroid activity. These included germs such as yersinia enterocolitica, certain
types of retrovirus, lithium, iodine, and the so-called goitrogens. This last category includes
chemicals found in vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage.
The New York Times of May 19 carried two letters to the editor on this subject. One, from
Professor Franklin M. Loew, Dean of the Tufts University Veterinary School, recalled that
vegetables of the brassica family, such as brussel sprouts, kale, and broccoli contain substances that
may help to prevent Graves' disease. The other letter reported that the popular guide, Prescription
for Nutritional Healing, recommends plenty of brocoveractive thyroid. All of this once again posed the question of Buscoli to guard against the dangers of theh's outbursts about broccoli, (^)
which may have been urged on his by physicians seeking a way to mitigate some of his symptoms.
On May 29, Bush's foremost political prisoner, Lyndon H. LaRouche commented on Bush's mental
health:
....In the past several days, particularly, there has been increasing discussion of President George
Bush's state of mental health. At the same time, questions have been raised as to which of his
decisions, beginning for example with the Panama decisions and the Iraqi decisions, might have
been caused, or largely shaped, by the influence of a mental disorder. ...I baupon what I have directly observed and have also reported since my observation of a pressse myself primarily
conference which President Bush delivered during the high point of the US invasion of Panama, at
the end of 1989. At that time, I observed, from what I saw on the television screen, that the
President was in a dissociated state such that at least at that moment or in that context, the stresses
of what he was doing had overwhelmed him, and he was to all intents and purpospsychotic at that time." es virtually
LaRouche illustrated Bush's disorder with the following example:
Many of usmost unpleasant personalities to work with, precisely because they are given to obsessions, and can know, sometime, quasi-successful or successful business executives and others who are
be set off into terrible states of rage if any of these irrational obsessions is disturbed. That is, if these
obsessions are frustrated in any way, the obsession may erupt as a glower at work, on the job or
elsewhere; it may take the form of the launching of a vendetta against some person on the slightest
kinds of flimsy pretext; it may also take the form of kicking the wife, the children, the family dog