Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then her right leg went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually...
...days; three days after she stops, she should begin a regular cycle (though repeat-courses may be needed in some cases). For irregular, excessive or painful menstruation or for between-periods bleeding, the drug is taken on different schedules which must be prescribed by a doctor...
...action on this phase of the cycle are far from complete. Even when the drug is released by the FDA, it will be strictly a prescription item; its effects are so tricky and complicated-there may be dangers still unsuspected-that women will be sharply discouraged from trying to doctor themselves with...
...Breathe Only Out. In London, Dr. H.O.J. Collier suggested that in view of the increasing hazards of radiation, modern health rules be distilled to three essentials: i) stop seeing the doctor and thus avoid X rays: 2) drink no milk, thus limit intake of cesium-137 (a radioactive isotope) j 3) stay indoors to be shielded from cosmic rays...
There is his agnostic doctor who offers Kansdorf morphine and a mercy killing. The doctor's wife had married him on the rebound when the man she really loved jilted her. This erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot. Father Perezcaballero is the bedeviled Graham Greene priest of the mislaid vocation. A brilliant preacher-intellectual, he has every gift but faith, all knowledge but that of the dimensions of his own pride. Brought to an appalled recognition of his vanity and emptiness, Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf...