Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benefits of radio-iodine extend to patients with chronic, congestive heart disease and angina pectoris. If, as is common in such cases, the healthy thyroid's activity is too high for a damaged heart, then a dose of iodine-131 can be used instead of the surgeon's knife to reduce the gland. Two-thirds of the heart cripples so treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital show worthwhile improvement, and half of these are so much better that they can lead nearly normal lives. Equally gratifying, the treatment releases many patients from the agonizing "tight" pains...
...Shot of Phosphorus. After iodine, radioactive phosphorus is the isotope which has proved most useful in treatment. It seems to be as effective as any other means of combating two kinds of chronic leukemia (lymphatic and myeloid), and it is more convenient than others. It is useless against the acute leukemias of childhood...
...years ago a San Francisco shipping executive heard the bad news from his doctors: he had chronic lymphatic leukemia. X-ray treatment might have slowed down the disease enough to give the patient ten or even 20 years of useful life, but doctors have done the job more easily with an occasional injection of colorless fluid containing phosphorus...
...Freedom & Democrorsia." Hell night's parade went on. A Puerto Rican seaman brought from jail with possible appendicitis, an ex-coal miner with chronic pulmonary fibrosis, a young boy superficially but painfully hurt in an auto crash. Sixteen babies were born, one by Caesarian...
...heart of Europe's sickness as the new year opened, underlying its dollar deficiencies and its chronic sweat and tears, was a shortage of one grubby product...