Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pride and poverty. The biggest boom has been in dental services, for which there was a huge and largely unrecognized backlog demand. When Medicaid started, New York paid out less than $1,000,000 in a three-month period for welfare recipients' dental care. Now the quarterly bite is almost $10 million...
...closely related species in South America has been known for 80 years to cause severe and sometimes gangrenous bites, but the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusd) was not believed to have such a potential until the late 1950s, when doctors at the University of Missouri identified it as the cause of bites that stubbornly refused to heal. In 1957, a University of Kansas instructor suffered a bite that turned gangrenous and created a wound three inches across. Physicians at the University of Arkansas saw more cases, and have made the brown recluse their specialty...
...brown recluse bites only when it is disturbed and feels threatened. But if it is exploring bed clothes at night, that moment may come when a man simply rolls over in his sleep. Because the bite is inconspicuous and the spider scurries away, the cause is often unsuspected. At first the venom causes only a stinging sensation, without much pain. Two to eight hours later, the pain may become intense, accompanied by nausea, joint pains, severe abdominal cramps and fever. The wound blisters, is surrounded by a hemorrhage. An ulcer may develop, followed by gangrene. The venom appears to contain...
...excised. Even in less severe cases, a skin graft may be required to close it. Without such plastic surgery, victims are left with "a hole in the leg," rather like a bullet hole. Dr. Dillaha's team recommends that when doctors do suspect a brown recluse bite, they give the patient a heavy injection of a cortisone-type hormone, and repeat it, in stepped-down dosage, every other day for ten days. This treatment should relieve the systemic effects and reduce the danger of kidney damage, which arises from destruction of red blood cells and the release of hemoglobin...
...most distinctive contribution to human ill health comes from its bite. There are credible stories of men, exhausted and sleeping, or trapped in a mine shaft, being bitten to death by rats. Far more common today is the case of the city mother, awakened by a cry in the middle of the night, who finds her infant in his crib bleeding from rat bites on the nose, lips or ears. The rat usually flees on her approach and escapes. The child may suffer from either of two types of rat-bite fever or from many common infections...