Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Improved Posture? John, meanwhile, had an even more discouraging setback-he threw his back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...
Slipshod Tests. Then there are conditions of the heart and arteries about which patients need special advice: severe high blood pressure, hypersensitivity of the main artery in the neck, the aftereffects of a heart attack, narrowing of the aorta, or angina pectoris so severe that it may cause crippling pain. Some abnormalities of the senses may easily go undetected, especially in the slipshod license examinations given in most states. Notable among these are tunnel vision-the ability to see straight ahead, but not far enough to the right or left-and disorders of the labyrinth of the ear, which controls...
...Extreme pessimism regarding cancer of the lung is no longer justified, said the University of Tennessee's Dr. Duane Carr. Even in cases which are found too late for surgery to help, deep X-ray treatments and drugs (nitrogen mustard and triethylene melamine) will relieve pain and prolong life...
...code numbers so that not even the doctors knew when a patient was getting which. Just as many patients felt lightheaded, drowsy or lost their appetite on sugar pills as on the drug. One suffered "overwhelming weakness, palpitation and nausea" within a few minutes of taking either. Another had pain, diarrhea, itching and swelling of the lips ten minutes after either kind of pill. All this means that if a patient gets sick after taking a drug, it may not be the drug's fault...
...with an account of Churchill's defeat by the Labor Party in the elections of 1945. Churchill went to bed "in the belief that the British people would wish me to continue my work . . . However, just before dawn, I woke suddenly with a sharp stab of almost physical pain. A hitherto subconscious conviction that we were beaten broke forth and dominated my mind. All the pressure of great events, on and against which I had mentally so long maintained my 'flying speed,' would cease and I should fall." By noon of that day, the election results confirmed...