An interesting, albeit speculative case study attempts to correlate possible unconscious psychological events and determinants with the development of cancer of the breast following a blow to the breast. A forty-six-year-old unmarried nurse developed cancer of the breast within weeks of a blow and underwent radical mastectomy five months after injury. Two years later widespread metastases

occurred and a bilateral ovariectomy and adrenalectomy was done. A year later she was well and all metastases had disappeared.

From a few interviews the author reconstructs a remarkably suggestive account of the psychological concomitants of the organic process. It is suggested that some specific psychological factors might exist in the etiology of cancer.