Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lowest temperature to which a patient can be dropped without danger of heart failure. But they have found plenty of other uses for chlorpromazine. Just as it serves as a preamplifier for anesthetics, it intensifies the effect of barbiturates and narcotics. Thus, patients with unbearable pain can get along with less morphine-and, hence, less danger of becoming resistant or addicted...
...pulled up with a sore right forefoot. Trainer Bill Winfrey could feel a suspicious warmth just above the hoof, but X rays showed no internal injury. Two days later, the colt galloped a couple of miles on the training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress that Owner Vanderbilt promptly withdrew him from this week's Suburban Handicap...
Before such potent hormones as cortisone and ACTH were discovered, doctors could offer little to victims of rheumatoid arthritis except aspirin-simply, they thought, to ease the pain. But just when cortisone became generally available, researchers made a surprising discovery: far from being a mere painkiller, aspirin has the biological power (like ACTH, but to a lesser degree) of stimulating the adrenal glands to produce their cortisone-like hormones. Still, U.S. doctors took it for granted that cortisone itself must be better, went on prescribing it lavishly (daily cost to U.S. patient...
...hold its own. In the British Medical Journal they described the treatment of 30 patients with cortisone for a year, matched against 31 on aspirin. Stage by stage, the two groups stayed even Stephen. At year's end, three-fourths in each group were virtually free of pain and disability, and almost half were able to go back to work. The tests have no bearing on the value of hormones in more advanced arthritis, but in these early cases, say the Britons, "there appears to have been surprisingly little to choose between cortisone and aspirin...
...series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...