Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a shower of bilge water disgorged by a ship and disgracefully dirtied their majestic plumage. The Vintners' swan master called for immediate action. Men in rowboats crowded the swans against the dock, fished them out one by one and hauled them away in vans to an R.S.P.C.A. clinic at Putney...
...between, says Temple University's Dr. Richard A. Kern. "No one will admit that he is old until long after that fact is obvious to everyone else . . . He who announces the limitation of his practice to geriatrics will probably starve, "† ¶ Three doctors at the Cleveland Clinic think they have found the connection between nervous tension and high blood pressure. They found that brain and nerve tissue can produce a hormone-like substance which gets into the blood, raises its pressure. The antidote: a drug called hydrazino-phthalazine. The discovery also explains why surgery (cutting the sympathetic nerve...
...Dung. Only 17 miles from the city of Madras (pop. 1,000,000) is the village of Alamadi (pop. 1,500); until this year, Alamadi had no medical service at all. Then some students of Stanley Medical College picked Alamadi as a place to set up a Sunday clinic. Said one: "We thought it quixotic that there should be so much cutthroat competition among city doctors, while a few miles away peasants died of tetanus because they thought cow dung would cure an abscess...
...almost, but not quite, true. By Mendelian laws of inheritance, the daughter of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier can be a bleeder. Doctors believed that such a child would die in the womb. . The British doctors report that a patient of 24 who visited a Manchester clinic during her first pregnancy had a history of easy bruising and free bleeding. Nevertheless she had a natural delivery and went home ten days later. Then the trouble began. There was profuse uterine bleeding, which could not be stopped even after she was readmitted to the hospital. Blood and plasma...
Slow Starvation. Donald began to have convulsions; he was slowly starving because muscular contraction made it almost impossible for him to swallow. Arthur Morton sold three of his eight cows to pay for a plane trip to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, last April. There Donald's case was considered again. The doctors' verdict: hopeless...