Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...
...engineering school, next showed to the reporter a pulse-rate recorder which he has devised for use in the Business School Fatigue Laboratories and in similar institutions. The small amount of current produced by each beat of the heart is picked up by two electrodes fastened to the patient's chest. The electric impulse is transmitted to an amplifier, which enables a buzzer or a tape recorder to be used in connection with the apparatus...
...tragic deaths, cited that of one Walter J. Kline. who died under the care of a Christian Science nurse.* The Mother Church answered that the Kline nurse was not a duly accredited Christian Science nurse said: "There is nothing in the teaching of Christian Science which should keep a patient from having whatever physical care he needs and the best...
...gastric response to bread and meat cannot be considered normal. Gastric digestion of meat is some-what impaired in heart and kidney diseases, in blood poisoning. In peptic ulcer, meat digestion is not impaired so far as concerns the stomach's ability to secrete gastric juices. If a patient fails to secrete the juices on both meat and bread diets, that is serious. Such failure is a sign of cancer of the stomach, of pernicious anemia, of delayed healing in lobar pneumonia and inflammation of the gall bladder...
Technique of blood transfusion has enabled many an individual to help a sick or injured friend. It has also created a traffic in blood. Blood brokers organize professional donors and supply them to hospitals. The friendless patient pays $50 a pint for blood. Brokers exact 20% of that as commission. Manhattan has about 2,000 donors, half of them professionals, half occasionals (impoverished people, thrill seekers). One Thomas Kane, deckhand, after giving blood 100 times in 15 years, ''retired'' last week. He boasts himself the record holder and now considers selling patches of his skin...