Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing more cases in late stages, fewer in early stages. The sooner a cancer is attacked, the better the prospects of cure. Unusual bleeding, strange lumps, unhealing sores are all danger signals. Chief cause of this recurrent negligence of early cancer was laid to Depression. Cancer causes little pain or inconvenience until it becomes mortal. Impoverished victims let their ailments wait...
...American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls "Bodlly Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage." The third is a desire to show depth of motif and subtlety of handling by a series of obvious and eternally repeated symbolisms, such as flashes of a moving clock pendulum, burning candles, or lights being turned on or off to show the passage of time in a supposedly esoteric...
Appendicitis should be suspected if a person, especially one under 30, has a sharp pain and a tender spot a few inches to the right of and a little below his navel; if he has fever and a furred tongue...
...appendix pain may pass away. But it is almost sure to return some day. There is no medicine to cure an infected appendix. It must be cut out. the sooner the better, agree most physicians and surgeons. Deaths are almost always due to delayed operations...
...unable to find words to describe it. But I shall never forget either the heroic behavior in the ensuing weeks of the bereaved mother who thought only of how to restore the Emperor to himself and constantly begged me to do everything to help him forget his pain...