Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patient E.G., 65, was dying of prostate cancer. The disease had spread to his bones and spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down. His legs were doubled up in a spasm and he was faint with pain. Two months ago the doctor began to give him daily injections. The patient was beyond noticing that he was getting a new medicine. But in three weeks he could move his legs. The pain slipped out of his body and he began to eat heartily. Last week, on shaky legs, he walked. Said a neurologist's report on the patient...
...Lehv told of trying the new drug in 20 cases. All were in the last, dying stage of cancer, beyond help from any standard treatment. Five of the 20 died in spite of the new drug. But in every case the drug had dramatically stopped the pain and at least made the patients feel healthy and cheerful. One patient, nine hours before he died, had felt so well that he demanded to be sent home...
...similar to a cancer cell's favorite food that the cell devours it, but so devoid of nourishment that the cell starves. Dr. Lehv & colleagues are drawing no sweeping conclusions as to how effective Teropterin is against cancer; but none of the doctors doubts its effectiveness as a pain-reliever...
...drug only three months, found that some types of cancer seemed to respond better than others. But researchers who know about Teropterin's performance thus far think that the drug promises at least one great gain in the anti-cancer war: it seems likely to relieve the pain and suffering of cancer's late stages, without the depressing effects of narcotics...
...thudding to the ground. While the calf still kicked in a cloud of dust, the vaqueros knelt down, swiftly branded it with the King Ranch's "running W," inoculated it against disease (blackleg), castrated it. Even as the calf scrambled to its feet, bawling with fear and pain, the lariat of Bob Kleberg or a vaquero had already tripped another calf to be branded...