Word: heals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Dr. Hart rigged up his germ killing light barrage, one out of 25 patients on whose chests he operated used to die from infections. No infections developed after he began using the barrage. Without the barrage incisions required an average of 21 days to heal. With the barrage the average fell to nine days. Besides, "improvement in the entire convalescence was good. There was less postoperative pain...
...Enlargement of the primary mole with subsequent ulceration that may heal incompletely and weep or bleed intermittently. This may lead the patient to consult a physician, who excises the lesion with a good margin of healthy tissue. The wound heals and the patient may remain well for a number of years. . . . Subsequently, however, recurrence takes place. Following this there is a rapid downhill course with widespread distant metastases [secondary cancers in other parts of the body...
...only bolt on the horizon at the present time is Captain Dubiel's ankle injury, which he incurred while pole-vaulting behind the Stadium. He appeared at practice today on crutches, but his ankle should heal quickly and he is expected to be ready to go after the recess...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...case of tuberculosis, pneumothorax may be a beneficial accident because it immobilizes the diseased lung, gives it a chance to rest and heal, and may enable the tuberculous invalid to attend his ordinary affairs. When doctors realized that good fact, they invented a procedure called artificial pneumothorax...