Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller still felt that he could keep his hand from being forced. And while a majority-perhaps 18-of his 25 fellow Governors are generally counted as pro-Rockefeller in varying degrees, few of them are now prepared to make an official commitment. Sev eral of the Governors in fact plan to go to Miami as favorite-son nominees...
...hands can tell a lot about him-the kind of work he does, his attention to personal cleanliness, the extent of his vanity. Now, in the opinion of some modern cardiologists, the hand is a valuable clue not only to a man's occupation and habits, but also, in many cases, to the condition of his heart...
...Mark E. Silverman and Dr. J. Willis Hurst of Atlanta's Emory University School of Medicine presented their latest hand-and-heart findings to the American College of Cardiology last week. Although the cause and nature of a heart defect or disorder are often obscure, the doctors suggested that these may become apparent to "the cardiovascular sleuth who lingers a moment longer at the radial (wrist) pulse to inspect the hand closely...
...babies are born with genetic heart defects and in many of these cases the genetic defect has visible, external effects as well as internal ones. The most obvious example: mongolism, technically known as Down's syndrome, in which there may be heart defects along with abnormalities of the hands-flabbiness, thickness, a short fifth finger and a "simian crease" across the palm. Several other genetic, chromosomally determined defects have comparable telltale hand signs...
More surprising was Dr. Silverman's report that heart disease acquired relatively late in life-including coronary occlusion-may be signaled by changes in the hand. Warm, moist hands with a fine tremor and occasionally clubbing* of the fingers, he said, suggest the possibility of an overactive thyroid with resulting inefficiency of the heart, and twitching of its upper chambers. A cold hand with coarse, puffy skin may be due to an underactive thyroid, and associated with fluid in the heart sac, a high blood-level of cholesterol, and even necrosis of part of the heart muscle from...