Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel fit and well, stay away from all doctors. Even in the case of cancer, nature will notify educated persons when to seek medical advice . . . Cheap mass examinations of those who have no symptoms are foolish. If a chest examination of someone who feels well shows a suggestion of something wrong, there is always a temptation to do something about it. Over 20% of the population has had some attack of tuberculosis and recovered without knowing it. If they had been X-rayed at a particular time, some small sign would have shown up and all their social contacts might...
...four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often" it is too late for an operation. Dr. Cameron would like to see still more mass examinations; chest X rays for everyone over 45, taken once or twice a year, he said, would cut the death rate from cancer of the lung by "a considerable figure...
...first of the 2,778 illustrations in these volumes shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
...exemplary conduct in the battle of Buena Vista said only, "I was under fire from 6 o.c. until 4." As artillery instructor at West Point, he taught the cadets with the same calm sobriety with which, during his Indian-fighting days, he removed an arrow from his chest...
...little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...