Word: bakeoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewers with alarm were Sister Michael Marie* and Dr. Matthew Ferguson, who saw most of their cases of heat illness at St. Vincent's Hospital, among Manhattan's bakeoven brick and brownstone pueblos. Doctors have long since dropped the lay term "sunstroke" because, they note, heat can strike down a man in the shade almost as readily. Actually, say the St. Vincent's physicians, there may be a dozen forms of heat illness. Some of them "are true medical emergencies, and any hesitation or indecisiveness in their diagnosis and treatment may result in death...
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