Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slimmer Patients. The trouble with accepted theories about the cause and treatment of diabetes, says Somogyi, is that they pay too little attention to the role of the liver. Laboratory work has convinced him that in most diabetics the liver cannot metabolize fats fast enough. Physicians working with him in St. Louis reject the common idea that a patient's intake of starches must be restricted; instead, they make the patient cut down on fats, to ease the load on the liver and to get his weight down to the ideal norm for his age and height...
...Chicago, Trainer Ben Jones planned to put his star back into the lineup. But after one of his morning gallops, Citation's ankle began to swell again. Ben Jones, as patient as he is wily, put his star back on the shelf with a crisp remark: "We don't need him right now." The rest of the team was clicking. Coaltown, whose efforts included a world-record mile-in 1:34-had the handicap division over a barrel; Kentucky Derby-winning Ponder, runaway victor in the recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation...
...cause immediate reddening. Nobody knows exactly how much X ray can be given repeatedly without causing chronic skin damage. Dr. Hempelmann believes that the dangers could be controlled by regulating the use of the machines. Other doctors think that for normal feet the best shoe-fitting machine is a patient shoe clerk...
...researchers noted that certain infections (e.g., the minute protozoa which cause sleeping sickness) thrive in a well-fed patient, but languish where some supposedly vital food factor is missing. Rats whose diet was lacking in the vitamin B complex survived sleeping sickness better than better-fed rodents. Ill-fed rats infested with an intestinal parasite were not helped by a pantothenic acid (vitamin) preparation in their diet; instead, the parasites flourished on it. So did the parasites in chickens infected with bird malaria...
Major Operation. In Rochester, Minn, police finally caught up with the man who dressed in a surgeon's gown, visited the hospital floors of the Kahler Hotel, told a patient to roll over, took $374 from his wallet and assured the victim: "Your back looks...