Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Secretary Early disclosed that Franklin Roosevelt's chronic cold has actually been intestinal flu, that Mr. Roosevelt expects to go to Warm Springs for ten days on April...
...order to discover that the general feeling is that much of the food served in the dining halls is poorly prepared. Complaints about cooking are traditional at Harvard as well as at other institutions. What the Committee attempted to do was to determine to what extent the complaints are chronic and unavoidable, and to what extent they could be removed by better preparation and more careful choice of dishes...
...Montefiore, world's largest private hospital for chronic diseases, Dr. Perla and co-workers collected 30 of the worst operative risks they could find-patients with advanced tuberculosis, cancer of the colon and rectum, glandular tumors. For five or six days before operation he gave them diets rich in protein and vitamins, plenty of salt and water, and injections of desoxycorticosterone. Injections were continued for two weeks after operation...
Correction of bad posture, according to Ober, will do much to relieve a common backache, and proper attention to other diseases may even prevent a pain in the back. Chronic cases, however, must be treated with rest in bed; the patient is told to lie in a comfortable position and to avoid motions which would increase his pain...
...condition of the aged campus police head who has been suffering from chronic threat trouble for some time, was reported last night to be extremely grave...