Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he began to feel pain, coldness and weakness in his left leg, the 65-year-old amputee recognized all too well the classic symptoms of hardening of the arteries. The disease that had already claimed his right leg was now attacking his left. As a last resort, two young doctors from the New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn suggested trying a new surgical technique that they had only tested on animals and human cadavers. Their method, they said, might save...
After dining with friends, Ike and Mamie returned about 11 p.m. to "Mamie's Cabin," the seven-room house the club built for Ike in 1952, and went to bed. An hour and a half later, the former President was jolted awake by severe chest pains. At his bedside was a buzzer so he could summon a Secret Service agent in an emergency. Within minutes Dr. Louis Battey, an Augusta cardiologist, was at his side. He gave Eisenhower a pain-relieving drug, nitroglycerin tablets to dilate the coronary arteries, and some oxygen. The pains were intense for 30 minutes...
After seven months, the wounded seaman could walk for several hours, flex his toes, feel pain and temperature changes, climb stairs, stoop down, and even kick a soccer ball. The stiffness of his fused ankle seems the only irreparable aftermath of his accident...
...functioning." American and French companies are already planning to market his patented discovery within two years, after the continuing search for further uses or undesirable side effects has been completed. But even now, says the confident Laborit, "it would seem that one could say without being too optimistic, that pain in all its forms will be called upon to disappear while the patient maintains perfectly lucid consciousness. The pains of childbirth, the pains of dentistry, the pains of cancer-all should vanish from human life...
Fichter is typical of the Divinity School's activist-theologians who are leading a religious revolution aimed at what another professor called "getting the church back into the pain and hope and excitement of the real world...