Word: paines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffered from headache, vomiting, blurred vision. Examination disclosed that she had neuritis in both eyes as the result of some pressure on the brain. With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain tumor. Dr. William James Gardner of Cleveland opened her skull, cut out the right cerebral hemisphere-i.e., half her brain...
...allowed to go to his summer home at Gull Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse, he was put on a stretcher, flown back to Rochester in a chartered airplane. Moaning with pain in spite of opiates, he arrived comatose with a high fever. "An awfully sick man," observed his physician, ordering a blood transfusion, an intravenous injection of glucose and saline solution. At that Governor Olson perked up, began to dictate telegrams...
George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
...promptly withdrawn after a brief statement of his political views. Explained Republican Taft: "They wanted someone who would damn F. D. R. and all his works. I can't and won't, and some of the Republican orators and candidates who do, give me an acute pain in the neck...
...physician should rejoice that he has at his command a system of midwifery which utilizes the body's resources, thereby tending to produce healthy young. This system increases body resistance and safeguards the patient against diseases that may occur during pregnancy; it shortens the period of labor, reduces pain and minimizes the necessity of using anesthetics as well as the amount in which they are employed. The infant mortality rate in childbirth under osteopathic technique is only 37 per 1,000, as compared with 65 per 1,000 for cases handled by the medical profession. . . . The osteopathic maternal death...