Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many others have a less obvious tenderness in muscles or arteries, which flares up as acute pain when they are handled by nurses. Still others have severe muscle spasm...
...early stages of polio, the doctors pointed out in the Journal of the American Medical Association, victims often complain of pain which keeps them rest less, fretful and unable to sleep well...
Admitting that they are no closer to finding a cure for polio, a team of Brooklyn doctors last week reported notable success with a treatment which relieves the pain and helps get patients out of the hospital sooner. The drug they use is Priscoline (which expands blood vessels and speeds up circulation). Dr. Emil Smith and five colleagues tested it last year on 663 patients at the Kingston Avenue Hospital...
Most of the patients began to feel better within half an hour after getting Priscoline, the six doctors reported. They "experienced a sense of well-being and sighed with relief. The pain either diminished or disappeared completely . . . They rested more comfortably during...
Muscle twitchings present in some of the patients receded." There was no evidence that the drug affected the polio virus in any way. But perhaps because the patients' resistance was not sapped so quickly by pain and loss of sleep, the acute phase of the illness appeared to be shortened...