Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Medicine: Witches Every Month
Women who become impossible to live with for a few days each month are more to be pitied than blamed, and they are entitled to more help from the medical profession than they are getting, declared Dr. Erie Henriksen, a surgeon-gynecologist who is head of the University of Southern California's Department of Gynecology.
The women in point, whom he described as "part-time witches," are victims of premenstrual tension. Dr. Henriksen and his colleagues estimate that about one half of all their women patients between the age of 30 and menopause suffer from periodic witchiness. They classify them as grade-one, grade-two and grade-three...
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