Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indians, Irvin, playing all out as usual, slid toward third base. He never got there. His spikes plowed into the dirt, caught and stuck. There was a sickening snap as Irvin's right ankle gave way under the strain of his 200 Ibs. As he lay writhing in pain, his ankle, as if in mockery of all the wasted years and the blasted hopes, stuck out at a grotesque right angle. Outfielder Willie Mays, Irvin's roommate and admiring fan, wept openly at the sight...
Gold to Ease Pain. Ranking third among the isotopes used in the treatment of patients is radioactive gold. In a few U.S. medical centers, the gold is injected directly into the tumor mass in certain cases of cancer of the cervix or of the prostate gland. This work is still in its infancy; in the standard medical summary, "the results are encouraging but inconclusive." Far more widespread is the use of radiogold, with no thought of cure but _ simply to ease the pain and inconvenience of excess fluid formation in cancers of the chest or abdominal cavity...
...miserable when she first went to the women's clinic of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital. She had had an ovarian cancer removed, but not soon enough: its colonies were spread around the lining of her abdominal cavity, causing it to fill rapidly with fluid. She had constant pain, cramps and constipation; she could not keep house, and had to be "tapped" regularly...
...legs was worse. He had suffered two embolisms, and to prevent a third and perhaps fatal clot from reaching his lungs, the doctors permanently tied off the large veins in his legs. Whether he would be able to walk again depended on whether he could stand the excruciating pain when the smaller veins began to carry the extra load...
Visiting Peking in the '20s, a wealthy Manhattan engineer named Guion M. Gest got relief from a painful eye disease, and picked up a hobby. For his ailment, Commander I. V. Gillis, U.S. naval attaché in Peking at the time, recommended an ancient Chinese eye medicine, concocted and sold by a Peking family. The medicine eased the engineer's pain, and he decided forthwith to begin collecting a library of Chinese medical books. In due time, Engineer Gest went back to the U.S., but before he left he commissioned Navyman Gillis to act as his agent...