Word: patient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...
First there were three years (1932-35) of disastrous warfare over the half-desert, half-swamp of the Chaco. About 100,000 men lost their lives. Then there were three years of patient negotiations at Buenos Aires. Last July Bolivian and Paraguayan representatives signed an agreement submitting to final arbitration by the six Presidents, pledged to act ex aequo et bono-"according to what is right and good." Two weeks later Paraguay's electorate voted ten-to-one to accept any boundary awards made. Bolivia's Constitutional Assembly soon followed suit...
Iced Ribs. In remodeling the nose and ears of an auto-accident victim, a plastic surgeon usually has to snip off patches of cartilage from the patient's ribs. Such mutilation is unnecessary, said Dr. Claire LeRoy Straith of Detroit, for cartilage leftovers from, surgical operations and even ribs removed at autopsy can be used in plastic surgery. Since cartilage is nourished by lymph instead of blood it does not undergo extensive or rapid degeneration. And it does not need to be ''matched'' to individuals. Spare ribs should be stored on ice, said Dr. Straith...
...bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet, but that apparently little of it had been absorbed for many years. No textbook diagnosis explained his case...
...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...