Hypochondria, amphetamines, and the convenient illnesses

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING (continuous condition through YDAU)
• What: Troeltsch is a committed hypochondriac and steady amphetamine user, and the two intertwine: he is one who "gets sick so often from the physical stress of constant 'drines," and his ailments conspicuously flare during morning drills and subside afterward — a pattern his teammates needle him about openly. He keeps a pharmacopeia (expectorants, Benadryl, Seldane) on his bedside table and has a red, running nose for most of the book. Physically he has "heavy German eyebrows and big-knuckled hands." Competitively he is flagged as a "Tightening Up" type who lets leads slip. (The illness/'drine causal read is other characters' attribution (065), not narratorial fact.)