Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yoshio Oyama was a skilled veteran in deep-sea diving. For 20 years he had flirted, unscathed, with underwater hazards, of which the deadliest is the invisible "bends"-nitrogen coming out of solution in the blood and forming bubbles that cause excruciating pain or paralysis. A fortnight ago, Veteran Diver Oyama met the bends...
Churchmen of all faiths seemed ready to agree. Said the World Council of Churches in Geneva: "Christians must stand together with all who, in the struggle for freedom, suffer pain and trial." The National Council of Churches in the U.S. cabled the Russian Orthodox Church, asking it to work for "the avoidance of further bloodshed and oppression...
...that helps reduce friction around a joint), myositis (inflammation of muscle tissues), fibrositis (muscle inflammation extending to connective tissues), tenosynovitis (inflammation of a tendon sheath), and such oddities as psychogenic rheumatism. Treatment: aspirin, possibly combined with hormones such as cortisone, prednisone and prednisolone. Codeine helps kill the pain, and heat is helpful. In bursitis, surgery is sometimes used to scrape calcified deposits from the inside of a bursa. In psychogenic rheumatism no physical cause can be found for the patient's undeniable physical ills. Symptoms most often resemble those of fibrositis and the two are often confused. (Adding...
Physicians used to treat rheumatoid arthritis by guess and by God, gave aspirin by the carload to ease the pain of inflamed, swollen and exquisitely tender joints. In the 19305 it was found that, for no known reason, injections of certain gold salts brought the disease under control. Treatment was fraught with danger of damage to liver and kidneys. But the net effect was beneficial in perhaps 40% of cases...
...Mary circumscribed his sense of proportion and drove him into what he called "depressions, black as a smith's beard." Praised by his friends for his courage and devotion, he only answered tersely: "I stink in the midst of respect." Only Mary's misfortunes could lessen the pain of his own -which is why a wit named them "Gum Boil and Toothache," each being "a great relief" to the other...