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JAMA. 1966;196(12):1082.

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Whole generations of us whose surnames happen to begin with one of the last eight letters of the alphabet may be suffering from what Dr. Trevor Weston of London calls "The Alphabetical Disorder."¹ Not only do we "S to Z people," as Dr. Weston calls us, have a life expectancy of a mere 64 years, which is 12 years less than that of the total population, but also we seem to be more susceptible to peptic ulcer, heart attack, and mental troubles. Dr. Weston explains it this way:

Wasn't everything in school always done in alphabetical order? Turns at games, for example, always started with the A's and by the time they had worked down through the M's and N's and O's and P's into the S's and W's, everybody was tired of the game, "or there wasn't time for anybody else to play, or the best of whatever . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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