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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitant as to your duty. do to your patient what you would do to your father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gosset | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said he, ''but nothing of any serious importance. The patient is not confined to his bed, and no surgical operation of any kind is contemplated." There also seemed to be nothing in particular the matter with Señora Rubio, but she and Señor Ortiz Rubio stayed on at Johns Hopkins, enjoying the appetizing food, complimenting their nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Hallucinations among the insane are not the result of physical changes in the brain, but the result of profound changes in the viewpoint of the patient, who tries to rationalize his own mental condition.- Dr. Henri Claude, University of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatric Meeting | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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