Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another of the non-athletic committee's jobs is finding berths in the Houses for visiting debaters. The committee's plans were badly shaken once this winter when the University of Pennsylvania showed up with a girl on its teams. Some last minute scurrying got the lady a bed in an off-campus house at Radcliffe. She apparently liked the Annex, because she stayed a week. In the meantime, a McGill team arrived to debate Harvard, and the Pennsylvania lass struck up acquaintance with one of the Canadians. When last heard from she was on her way to Montreal...
...including high-calorie diets, low-calorie diets, vitamins A, B, C and D, typhoid vaccine, streptococcus vaccine, artificial fever, blood transfusions, injections of milk and horse serum, aspirin and whisky (for pain), massage, dry heat, mineral baths, metals such as gold, change of climate, psychotherapy, exercise and rest in bed. Some of the treatments proved to be harmless, some harmful. Some even seemed to work, but only for a while...
...like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other patients are being treated, with similar...
...wish to correct Sachnoff's deplorable inaccuracies. He occupied Bed 12 and Madel Bed 9. I could give the periodic temperatures and diagnosis of both patients, but these facts are irrelevant...
...April 27th issue I read a letter to the editor written by one Lowell Sachnoff '52. He stated that he occupied Bed 8 in Ward 3, and that the writer of the first article, Paul W. Mandel, occupied Bed 10. It is commendable that writer Sachnoff remembers even that he was there, his stay was so short...