Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Including the late Senator Robert A., Diplomat William H. Ill, Lawyer Charles P., and freshman Congressman Robert...
...main problem in improving care for the mentally ill and retarded is the lack of trained help. Kennedy recommended federal assistance through the Office of Education to train hospital workers and teachers for the handicapped. "Shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled" has gone on too long, said the President. "We can procrastinate no more...
...suffering from one of the commonest forms of blue-baby disorder-Pallet's tetralogy, a set of four serious heart defects which nearly always occur together. All the children were under five; they had only about 70% of normal oxygen in their red cells, and they were too ill to risk the heroic surgery that would correct all their heart defects. Dr. Boerema wanted to do a palliative operation, after which a final operation could await a few more years of growth and added strength...
...with its 20% oxygen, they were getting 15 times the normal supply. They turned pink at once. Dr. Boerema clamped off the great vessels around their hearts to shut off circulation. Unhurriedly, he made a connection between two arteries. Thanks to the oxygen drenching, the children showed no ill effects from the blood-flow shut down, and emerged from the operations with oxygen concentrations in their blood ranging from 92% to 96% of normal...
...years ago through an ingenious stroke of applied science. Its founder, a German chemist named Eugen Lucius, perfected the first instant dye, which won wide popularity after a French silk dyer used it to dye green the silk to be used in an evening dress for Emperor Napoleon Ill's wife, Empress Eugenie. Soon researchers, using Hoechst dyes, learned that they could stain living and dead tissue to study the origin and spread of diseases. Famed Microbiologist Robert Koch used Hoechst dyes to discover the organisms causing anthrax and tuberculosis. Over the years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain, the first...