Word: patient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with this attitude, we must keep faith that we can remain at peace. Perhaps faith can move mountains. At any rate, fatalistic discouragement is the best high-road to the low-land of war. Keep faith, lest the patient die for lack of will-power...
...important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull out the intestines "foot by foot," looking for bullet perforations, and stitching them up. Although he may find as many as eight or ten perforations, the entire operation should not take more than 20 minutes. If he neglects the exploration, his patient is almost certain to die from hemorrhage or peritonitis. (Patients suffering from hemorrhage should have an H marked on their foreheads.to insure prompt treatment...
...World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance of blankets and hot water bottles to prevent chill; 3) plenty of warm, sweet tea to restore a proper water balance; 4) blood transfusion to avoid blood poisoning; 5) operation as soon as the patient comes out of shock...
...most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as experienced by the patient-its atmosphere of muffled crises, sterilized optimism, morbid freshness, of surrealist panic as viewed through an anesthetic mask...
...Chicago Daily News's dependable Archibald T. Steele told what had happened to a Canadian. While Canadian Missionary Minnie Shipley lay dying of typhus in a Canadian mission hospital in Changteh (Hunan), demonstrators drove away Chinese employes of the hospital, isolated the building until the patient died...