Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clinical center for observation and treatment of patients with chronic diseases...
Writes Sir Heneage in the Practitioner: "It would not be a particularly difficult feat...to produce quite a convincing thesis that the present lackadaisical outlook of the country, so repeatedly castigated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a symptom of chronic [barbiturate] intoxication...
...Chronic Mistakes. Moreover, said Menninger, emotional troubles account for 85% of "stomach trouble" and "a very large percentage of heart difficulties." It is some 25 to 30% of the population who cause 60 to 100% of all accidents; they are the "accident-prone," related closely to "the mistake-makers that somehow or other keep on making the same mistakes again and again and again..." All of them are emotionally disturbed. "It is taken as a matter of course that cut fingers, broken arms and upset stomachs should have immediate attention. But it is seldom realized that prompt handling...
...also pointed out that not even the chronic drinker necessarily becomes an alcoholic-"there are millions of regular drinkers who aren't and won't become alcoholics...
...CHRONIC electric power shortages in the Pacific Northwest are beginning to ease up, and utilities are now edging up to a new problem: selling all the power produced by the big new dams scheduled for the area. Washington Water Power Co., the state's second biggest private utility, will soon start its first sales-promotion campaign in ten years...