Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also likely to escape notice are radiation burns of the skin on the customer's feet, if they do not cause immediate reddening. Nobody knows exactly how much X ray can be given repeatedly without causing chronic skin damage. Dr. Hempelmann believes that the dangers could be controlled by regulating the use of the machines. Other doctors think that for normal feet the best shoe-fitting machine is a patient shoe clerk...
With all its chronic ailments, Broadway was also suffering from the city's investigation into the black market in tickets to hit shows. Twenty-four of the town's ticket brokers had lost their licenses, six more were under charges, and one box-office man had been suspended. The theater's reputable citizens spoke bravely of reform...
...managing editor of the New Gould Medical Dictionary, published this week (Blakiston Co.; $8.50). Dr. Hoerr thinks that all such terms should be discontinued. Also ripe for cutting, he felt, were terms built on researchers' names. Example: the New Gould has no entry for Bright's Disease (chronic nephritis), mentions it only in a note on Richard Bright...
...University of Alaska will be a harder problem. Since its founding in 1922, it has been battling an annual invasion of summer mosquitoes, sub-zero winter temperatures and a chronic shortage of money. Nevertheless, with Founder Bunnell pushing determinedly ahead, the university has grown until it now has 698 part-and full-time students and a 42-man faculty. It has become a center for Arctic research, a training ground for mining engineers, a clearinghouse of information for farmers and prospectors...
Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...