Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miracles & Disappointments. In 1949 came the dramatized announcement (with before-and-after movies) from the Mayo Clinic of wondrous results with two hormones: ACTH and cortisone. Hopes for miracle cures soared, along with sales of the hormones. Gradually it has become clear that the hormones do not cure rheumatoid arthritis; they suppress its worst symptoms until-as is the way with this baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some...
...Ferrara, who was severely crippled by Still's disease at the age. of nine. Her knees were bent and could not be straightened; her elbows were straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...
Coon and Farnsworth have no ready explanation for the sudden spurt in the number of voluntary appearances at the Clinic. The services it offers have been advertised for years. Farnsworth has noted little resistance among students when the idea they might benefit from a talk with a psychiatrist is suggested. Coon says that his experience in first meeting students is that they are not too uneasy...
...shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis in jigtime: a rupture, creating a tunnel between the aorta and the right auricle of the heart...
...free legal clinic in which law students provide advice to those who cannot afford lawyers...