Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Developed over the past two years by Public Health School doctors Stanley J. Sarnoff and Dr. James L. Whittenberger, assistant professor of physiology, the new respirator induces artificial breathing by passing an electrical current through the phrenic nerve in the patient's neck...
Doctor Whittenberger revealed this week that at least one Boston police victim of the recent opidemic, was saved from death by the new machine. A six-day treatment brought the patient from a near hopeless condition to eventual recovery...
...patient suffering from bulbar polio is unable to breathe regularly. When current from the respirator is applied to the nerve, however, the natural, irregular breathing is suspended, and regular, controlled breathing is induced by the apparatus...
...Chemistry has withdrawn acceptance of the drug because it causes too many bad reactions: rashes, fever, blood disorders. Despite these drawbacks, sulfathiazole was lavishly used until such newer drugs as sulfadiazine and penicillin came along. Doctors may still prescribe sulfathiazole, but will want to be sure that the patient can take...
Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...