Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimental subjects he had his choice of Mrs. Blair, two students. He rejected all three, picked himself. A spider bit his little finger. A sharp pain shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other...
...Physicians should realize and tell their patients that operations undertaken merely to relieve pain or shorten labor are risky. ¶ Mothers should realize they must have early and frequent medical examination during the pre-natal period. ¶ Hospitals should obtain qualified obstetricians to head their staffs; develop specially-trained nursing staffs; establish adequate pre-natal clinics, available to every woman; maintain separate delivery rooms, rigidly guarded against infection; give subordinates careful supervision. Private hospitals should be supervised by a responsible board...
...that feels perfectly comfortable in the public eye, and prepared for the White House spotlight by four years in Albany's executive mansion, Mrs. Roosevelt has let the Press in on her most private comings & goings to an unprecedented extent. Her prodigious publicity has had several effects: to pain people who think the First Lady should be her husband's wife, not a front-page solo character; to gladden people who think it is fine that the country has a woman at its head as vitally interested in almost as many public movements as her husband; to reveal...
Amebic dysentery's symptoms-severe abdominal pain, acute diarrhea, heavy discharge of mucus and blood-do not appear until 18 to 90 days after infection. To Alfred Emanuel Smith, James Aloysius Farley and some 18,000 other persons who had stayed at one of the infested hotels during the summer, Chicago's Board of Health dispatched guarded inquiries about their health. Those who reported illness were urged to consult physicians. Most cases of amebic dysentery can be cured if treated early. But U. S. physicians, unacquainted with it, often diagnose it as ulcerated colitis, peritonitis, appendicitis. Mary Louise...
...King's when he was and to E. J. Selwyn, for saying that he was when he was not; to Dochmanyi for the omission of his final syllable; to Mrs. Prior, for spelling her name with a y, and to Pini, for the agonizing distortion of his to Pain; and to any other Society or individual to whom the article in question affords ground for complaint...