Word: patient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will without a penny, J. J. charged that Testator Astor was "mentally ill when the paper was executed . . . suffering from senility [and] arteriosclerosis ... incompetent to make a will." J. J.'s main chance to break the will: for undisclosed reasons, Vincent Astor was indeed a patient in Manhattan's famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic while the document was being drawn for his signature a year...
...Movies & Church. Most of the secretary's family were in Minnesota, close around Rochester and accessible for interviews. The trail led back to the first patient's grandfather, a farmer. His daughters remembered him as a "very sleepy person who always fell asleep when he sat down." His wife was normal. So were his son and younger daughter. But his elder daughter, 67, complained of severe drowsiness and episodes of sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. How she managed was a mystery because she had 16 children. She consistently fell asleep at movies, even...
...second son seemed normal. Third of the 16 sibs was the secretary's mother and patient No. 1. As they worked down the line, the neurologists found that at least five sons and two daughters in the third generation were narcoleptics. One first noted the trouble on guard duty in the Army, has since had many "near accidents" from dozing while driving. Another insisted that he was not really a dangerous driver because a "close shave" would wake him and he had not yet had a serious accident. One of the sons had been disciplined in the Army...
Colonel Charles Johnstone, 43, commanding officer of the 6000th Support Wing, which keeps house for bases stretching all the way to Iwo Jima, is normally a genial and patient man, but ever since he took over his command in 1957 he has been disgusted by the way the wives and children of his officers and airmen were behaving in Japan. He fired his first salvo last fall, when he bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents." He blamed "cheap entertainment in the clubs and cheap...
Surgery by itself has made such strides that most authorities (including many surgeons) figure that it is nearing the end of the road. Thanks to advances in general surgical techniques and patient care, it is now possible to remove huge masses of tissue, including whole organs and limbs. Hence the grim jest: "They put the specimen to bed and sent the patient to the laboratory." For some cancers there is no doubt that "radical" (meaning drastic and extensive) surgery has pro longed useful life. (The University of Minnesota's famed Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei's most productive...