Word: drs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drs. Osmond and Smythies think it would be worth while to do a lot of chemical and biochemical testing of mescaline and schizophrenics. After that, they say, either their theory will join countless others on the scrap heap of psychiatry or the cause of schizophrenia will be known...
...Methodist Hospital on New Year's Eve was 46, a county sheriff by occupation and a fine figure of a man. But for months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed where the artery's walls...
...Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Drs. Howard S. Traisman and L. Martin Hardy reported to the Illinois State Medical Society, 55 of the children got only the old-fashioned treatment; 37 got a sulfa drug in addition, and similar groups received one of two antibiotics. Children in the standard-treatment group got well faster than the others; when they had complications (such as ear infections and pneumonia), these showed up sooner and were cleared up earlier with the proper drugs...
...inconsistent in their care, offering food irregularly, sometimes nursing the babies when they are restless and at other times ignoring them, the babies not only cry more but grow more slowly than those who get consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black...
...usual hospital practice of putting newborn babies in an incubator if they have breathing difficulties is wrong, said an Atlanta husband & wife team, Drs. James and Faith Miller. The warmth of the incubator increases the need for oxygen, whereas cold decreases it. After experiments on animals, the Millers suspect that babies in danger of asphyxia should be chilled...