ABSTRACT
To demonstrate that hypochondria, or the type of psychogenic illness that points insistently to physical disease and persuades the medical profession to apply all the remedies not only of medicine, but often of surgery, is not even a clinical entity but may have its basis in a great variety of different causes including psychotic or pre-psychotic conditions and even an admixture of epinosic gain motive, I shall proceed to detail a common type of case which has a complicated and not uncommon psychopathology.
