Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practices the moderation that he preaches. Waking between 5 and 5:30, he makes his own breakfast and starts work at once. With no visitors or telephone calls to interrupt him he gets his best work done (writing and assembling statistics for his reports) before he leaves for the clinic...
Since 1945, Page has been research chief of the Cleveland Clinic (a private medical center founded by the late Surgeon George Crile). In seven floors of laboratories, Dr. Page and his staff (eight physicians, four other research scientists, 26 technicians) are attacking all phases of hypertension from as many angles as possible, and in 20 research beds in the clinic's adjoining hospital the medical staff cares for patients who agree to cooperate in the study and treatment of their disease. Some of the scientific attacks are so basic that they seem remote from bedside medicine...
...more severe cases the Cleveland Clinic doctors have a growing list of hopeful treatments. And in some victims, at least, malignant hypertension can actually be reversed. For years Dr. Page used kidney extracts, which helped some patients, and pioneered with fever treatments which had similar moderate success. Not until the spring of 1951 was a drug found to control malignant hypertension. This was hydralazine. In quick succession came a series of hexamethonium compounds (followed by the related pentolinium) and more recently reserpine...
From Cleveland Clinic case histories...
...soft-drink manufacturer turning 50 was in bad shape with an enlarged and failing heart, breathlessness, weakness and fluid retention (the old-time "dropsy"). His blood pressure had soared to 230 over 146. He was the first patient given hydralazine at the clinic, and remains one of its best testimonials. In more than five years he has had no signs of heart failure (though the heart is still enlarged), no worsening of kidney trouble, and he does a full day's work...