Word: edema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...
...claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable pain. When trephination was performed, the brain literally mushroomed out of the head...
...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...
...corneal disease. Then he examined a patient, asked the usual questions and recorded the findings by hitting selected keys from 200 on the machine's keyboard. Examples: no ulceration (a negative sign can be as important as the positive), deep-seated opacity, deep-seated blood vessels, no edema, normal sensitivity. Then the machine sorted the cards, rejecting those that did not match the patient's symptoms. It offered half a dozen as meeting all the requirements, e.g., congenital syphilis, result of an old injury or chemical burn-more likely from an alkali than an acid. From these, Paycha...
...each used separately. But 1) the evidence for super-aspirin's synergistic effect is questionable; 2) aspirin can be taken safely by almost any patient, while hormones are suitable only for some patients. Cortisone, ACTH, prednisone and other hormones sometimes produce such undesirable side effects as peptic ulcers, edema, mental disturbances and high blood pressure...