Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other victims of high blood pressure, under treatment with hexamethonium, may have "a dramatic type of respiratory disturbance," with breathing difficulties, fever, cough and chest pain, and turn blue. This, though rare, can be fatal within a month...
...Isoniazid, wonder drug of 1952 against TB, may set off inflammation of the peripheral nerves, causing phantom sensations, numbness, burning pain and weakness. Unless caught early and treated with vitamin B6, this neuritis becomes permanent...
Last Illness. Though he had been sickly as a child, his constitution was remarkable, and he rallied amazingly from his serious illness four years ago (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954). He was in good health until the recurrence, a week ago, of the gastric pain and hiccups that had plagued him in 1954. He soon struggled back into his stringent schedule, but one day last week, as his doctor was examining him, he suddenly cried in alarm, "Dio mio, non ci vedo!-My God, I cannot see!" It was a stroke. The Pope fought back. His vision restored, he summoned...
...aging citizen must plan ahead. He must stop feeling guilty over the fact that oldsters are alleged to complain too much about their illnesses. (Geriatricians argue that the aged, because they are less responsive to pain, are apt to complain too little, so that dangerous conditions go undetected until they are irreparable.) He must take advantage of the limited but growing knowledge that geriatrics has amassed. Dr. Zeman likes to quote Sir James Crichton-Browne (who lived to be 97): "There is no short cut to longevity. To achieve it is the work of a lifetime...
...gratification is not love, the golden pair find after 146 pages of satisfying themselves. "It was as though, for the first time, we saw what we were doing. It seemed that we were not merely lying locked in that hard merciless embrace of pain and love. But we were also standing above somewhere, watching. We knew what we would do; we did it; we looked back upon it. We had never had to love with perspective before. It spoiled...