Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrocortisone (Compound F), which some Philadelphia doctors had praised to the skies for thawing out joints frozen by arthritis: its usefulness is limited and it is far too expensive. The good news was that a cheap drug (one-third the price of cortisone) has been found which relieves pain in most cases of arthritis and also in gout...
...left hand flicks and darts and claws at the air, and his eyes, affected by years of Nazi beatings, roll and bulge in a way that gives a continually fanatical cast to words that often do border on fanaticism. He lives on cigarettes, barbiturates and coffee; he wears perpetual pain as casually as an undershirt. Partly paralyzed, he is often confined to bed for prolonged periods-as he was again last week...
...rehabilitation, Kessler pointed out, orthopedists can now take advantage of the amputee's familiar "phantom limb" sensation, i.e., after an amputation, patients often "feel" pain in the lost member. Instead of trying to get rid of this sensation, doctors in Vaduz, capital of the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein, have been urging patients to cultivate it, e.g., by flexing the muscles in the arm stump, as if opening and closing the hand. Thus the muscle is kept active, and rehabilitation (with an electric hand) can be speeded...
None of the acupuncturists had any doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility...
...night of Jan. 25, phones began ringing in Cairo newsrooms. It was Ahmed Hussein, the "Socialist Party" leader, said the voice. He was deathly sick, lying on a bed of pain, and he wanted to be sure the papers reported it. The next afternoon the phones rang again. At that very moment Cairo lay enshrouded in smoke and echoing to sirens as a feverish anti-foreign mob, directed by jeep-borne leaders on a precise timetable, fired $300 million worth of foreign property and took some 60 lives (TIME, Feb. 11). It was Ahmed again. He was still...