Word: patient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widely used Wassermann test for syphilis has its faults. If the tested patient has recently been vaccinated, the Wassermann may be "positive" - the standard indication of syphilis. It may also be positive if he has any one of a long list of diseases, e.g., chicken pox, measles, malaria, pneumonia, meningitis...
...test, spirochetes from syphilitic rabbits are mixed with human blood. When the antibodies are present in the blood, the energetic spirochetes stop moving and apparently die, indicating that the patient has syphilis. Therefore, Dr. Nelson called his substances "Treponemal immobilizing antibodies...
That was not the final indignity heaped upon patient Frankie Costello. Last week came word that Costello had been barred from the Turkish bath in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, across the street from Tammany headquarters. Some of the customers, said a hotel spokesman, preferred not to perspire in his presence...
...years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de EJavilland as the mental patient (TIME...