Word: heals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been known for 80 years to cause severe and sometimes gangrenous bites, but the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusd) was not believed to have such a potential until the late 1950s, when doctors at the University of Missouri identified it as the cause of bites that stubbornly refused to heal. In 1957, a University of Kansas instructor suffered a bite that turned gangrenous and created a wound three inches across. Physicians at the University of Arkansas saw more cases, and have made the brown recluse their specialty...
...seen by Massie, the Romanovs' 300 years' rule was doomed by the Czarevich's hemophilia: it put the imperial pair in the oily hands of Rasputin, whose prayers they believed would heal their more than fragile son Alexis. Rasputin not only destroyed the morale of the aristocracy, he also made it impossible for Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member...
Tupou IV is supposed to be descended from the mythical sky god Tangaroa, but Tongans no longer believe their King can magically heal scrofula or liver disease with a mere touch of his foot...
They had hoped that the heal-in, in which they filled the hospital by accepting an unusually large number of patients, and giving them more intensive care, would dramatize their demands. "We feel that we have made our point -- a decent wage for house officers," one of the heal-in's leaders said last night...
...meeting of the City Hospital's executive committee yesterday, directors of the medical and dental services unanimously confirmed their support of the heal-in. Although the directors had voiced sympathy with the house officers' demands before the heal-in, on Wednesday there was dissent about the ethics of the heal-in. While Dr. William V. McDermott Jr. '38, director of Harvard services, enthusiastically backed the heal-inners,' Dr. John J. Byrne of B.U. expressed disapproval