Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exercise. Volunteer Cobb lived a carefully regulated life for the next 83 weeks. He was confined to the air-conditioned clinic, permitted no exercise (to avoid fluid loss through sweat), and given only measured amounts of food and water. Each day's intake was about 1,000 calories, but in 56-day cycles, he was shifted among...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...
...heartland. Settled in 1824, the town has several industries, a busy main street and a fringe of farms. The researchers arrived in 1959, persuaded 8,600 residents, nine-tenths of the community, to give details of their past family and medical history and to visit a clinic where doctors took blood and urine samples, electrocardiograms, chest X rays, along with complete physical examinations. Then the doctors plotted the frequency of coronary, hypertensive, rheumatic and congenital heart disease, and of congestive heart failure in a variety of sex and age groups. They found that along with cholesterol level and blood pressure...
...union fountain, lunch on cheap sandwiches and pie at the outdoor Terrace, bang on bongo drums on the Lower Plaza. "Berkeley is one of the best places I know of to drop out of the system and yet survive," says Dr. David H. Powelson, director of the campus psychiatric clinic...
...that banned the use of contraceptives by anyone, including married couples. It had been challenged by Yale Gynecologist C. Lee Buxton and Mrs. Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Connecticut Planned Parenthood League, who had been convicted ($100 fines) for dispensing contraceptives at a birth-control clinic in New Haven. "A very bad law," agreed dissenting Justice Hugo Black. "An uncommonly silly law," agreed dissenting Justice Potter Stewart...