Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neighbors peered into the street through half-closed shutters, but the police quickly warned: "Shut those windows or we will shoot." A young doctor ignored the order and tried to administer first aid to a man felled by a police truncheon. A cop shot him through the chest...
...amphetamine go back almost 20 years to a time when the most popular inhaler contained Benzedrine (Smith, Kline, & French Laboratories' trade name for one form of amphetamine). Prison wardens complained that accordion-pleated paper fillers loaded with 250 mg. of amphetamine (15 times the average daily dose a doctor would prescribe for reducing or lethargic patients) were being smuggled to convicts, who chewed them and went on violent rampages. Then S.K.F. chemists found a better decongestant, propylhexedrine (not an amphetamine or a stimulant), to put in inhalers, and changed the name to Benze-drex. The problem died down until...
...patient who has listened carefully to his doctor, angina pectoris (literally, strangling of the chest) means that because of exertion or excitement, his heart muscle is demanding more blood than its narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But it is not necessarily as simple as that, and angina can have some bizarre connotations, says Internist John Francis Briggs of St. Paul. The more doctors learn about the distressing symptom and its victims, the more complex angina becomes. To help get the next generation of practitioners started on the right track, Dr. Briggs lists 26 variations of angina in The New Physician...
...when a patient gets high enough to become "involved in emotional events" that he would have the sense to avoid when sober. Also, alcohol is often prescribed to relieve angina (it is little good except as a sedative), and "enthusiasm for the treatment" may become so great that the doctor winds up treating alcoholism, not angina...
...Doctor's Dilemma. A careful, perhaps too conventional interpretation of a play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates...