The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. and Death. (33 page)

“insidious,”
75
-76

normal lumps vs.,
118
-19

symmetry test for,
118
see also
brain tumors; cancer

two-point-discrimination tests,
97

ulcerative colitis,
179
-80

ulcers,
60
,
126
,
128
n,
129
,
176

uncinate fits,
92
-93

urination,
44

fainting during,
122
n

insufficient,
113

overwhelming anxiety during,
122

urine,
79
,
81

asparagus in smell of,
54

blue,
59

cola-colored,
129

Urised,
59

uvula,
24
,
98
-99,
169

uvulopalatopharyngoplasty,
75

venereal disease,
33

Venn diagrams,
39
-40

Viagra, as killer,
49
-50

volvulus,
130

Waldenström's macroglobulinemia,
74

Washington Post,
49
,
170
,
182
-83,
194

water intoxication,
113

Weekly World News,
52
-53

Wegener's granulomatosis,
66

Weil's disease (leptospirosis),
81

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome,
113

Whipple's disease,
175
,
176

white stools,
176
-77

Wilhelmsen, Ingvard,
41
-42

Wolfe, Martin,
38

women,
64
,
78
-79,
119
,
127
,
132
n,
139
-39,
171

big fat vs. small thin,
48

eye shadow on,
168

historical treatments for,
44
-45

Japanese, constipation of,
170
-71

middle-aged, diseases of,
69
,
70
-71

smaller brains of,
45
see also
pregnancy

Woodstock,
188
n

Woodward, Bob,
179
,
182

words on the tip of one's tongue,
71

World War I, soldiers with jaw pain in,
58

worms,
79
,
166
,
176

xiphoid process,
119

X-ray Specs,
168
-69

yawning,
73

Zangara, Giuseppe,
131

Zappa, Frank,
171
-72

Zimmerman, Lorenz,
159

About the Author

Gene Weingarten (1951- ) has been a writer and editor at
The Washington Post
since 1990. Before that he was a reporter for the
Detroit Free Press,
an editor at the
National Law Journal,
and the editor of
The Miami Herald's Tropic
magazine, which he helped lead to two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1988 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. This is his first book.