Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...
...depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident, the Snowden speech, the loans to brokers, or whatnot-or else conceded that stocks had been forced to artificial heights. Vindicated, Mr. Babson said nothing...
...Youngest and most delicate of George V's four sons is Prince George, 26, who has to be careful of his stomach. "Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...Boas urges that all.large communities establish special chronic disease hospitals, that states create them in rural districts. Precise-minded, he specifies that such hospitals should have connecting pavilions for the three types of chronics, 1) patients requiring medical care for diagnosis and treatment, 2) patients requiring chiefly skilled nursing care, 3) patients requiring only custodial care. As a patient improves or declines he can be shifted to where he gets specific treatment. As for the smaller details, every three patients should have two wheel chairs at their disposal. Preferably not more than two should occupy a room. They should have...
...CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES-Ernst P. Boas & Nicholas Michelson-Macmillan ($2.50). †U. S. almshouses contain 85,000 inmates, three-fourths of whom need constant medical attention, get little...