Word: bedfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 on the excellent service, daily receiving from...
...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...
...night the fruits of six months' work,"* Dr. Isidore Sydney Falk has discovered, the university announced last week, the germ which causes influenza. It is the polymorphous streptococcus. When the news reached London, where investigators have been at the same problem, the London Times called Dr. Falk from bed to answer its transAtlantic telephone questions. It was 11 a. m. in London. 5 a. m. in Chicago. It was a half-hour later when Dr. Falk returned to his bed...
...pneumonia and erysipelas, but pulled through. Her 100th birthday was triumphantly celebrated with a party in her honor, at which she said a lengthy grace in a firm loud voice, while 41 descendants bowed their heads. Nearly two years later she died quietly in bed...
...Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Anna McLuckie, 60, sleeping, was awakened by the bed shaking, thought it was an earthquake, leaped out, fainted, and broke her collar bone...