Word: painful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heartened by such new facilities for geriatric surgery, Dr. Toma says: "We hear and read so much about the ghastliness of old age, of the crippled and pain-racked bodies. I don't think much of this is necessary. I think we can do for the old-timers just what we do for younger people. And I think we have the proof of this at our two homes...
Sound Analysis. In Sausalito, Calif., Justice Walter Derr fined Artist Rodney Roth $50, ruled that the sound Mrs. Valerie Humphries had made at a party when Roth bit her bare midriff was "a yell of pain" rather than, as the painter had testified, "a cry of ecstasy...
...Pain, Counterpane. In Chicago, Bedding Manufacturer Joseph P. Fanning attributed the boom in bed sales to the possibility that "people are going to bed to escape domestic and international complications...
...first 26 patients who got the treatment were relieved of pain; X rays showed that their ulcers had healed. Most were able to discard their pappy ulcer diets and between-meal snacks, but they must take banthine regularly; it is a palliative rather than a cure...
...life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...