Word: appellative
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...were not only accustomed to their affliction. They came to prefer it. As adults they refused even to discuss the possibility of separation. To them, such a move would have seemed no less than amputation of a major limb. In recent weeks their feeling haunted their physician, Dr. John Appel, because though Mary seemed entirely healthy, Margaret was suffering from rapidly spreading cancer. But the sisters did not change their view, and last week when Margaret's cancer had spread to her lungs and heart, it had also spread...
...Lois S. APPEL Romeo, Mich...
Smothered. To President James Z. Appel, a homespun general practitioner and surgeon from Lancaster, Pa., talk of a doctors' boycott, even euphemized under the name of "non-participation," was wrong and dangerous. Though he himself opposed the bill, Dr. Appel said that the medical profession "must participate in the actual implementation of the legislation if and when it becomes...
Some delegates were having none of that. A few reported receiving telegrams urging "Impeach Appel!" and in the wrangling that went on for four days behind closed doors, old labels took on a new twist. The "radicals" wanted a boycott that would mean that doctors would refuse to cooperate at all with medicare. The "conservatives" were the more cautious, who insisted that they didn't like medicare either, and would do everything in their power to oppose its enactment, but would, as President Appel had urged, go along if it becomes...
...group of New York City researchers have been looking for the answer in test tubes containing nerve fibers growing in a nutrient solution. At Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Murray B Bornstein and Dr. Stanley H. Appel found that if serum from MS patients, or from animals with a similar disease, was added to the solution, the myelin "insulation" was dissolved. Serum from healthy people or animals had no such effect. With Columbia University's Dr Stanley M. Crain, Dr. Bornstein then tested the electrical connections between cells within the nerve fiber. Serum from MS patients, the doctors found, inactivates...