Word: pains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Medical Association has one pain that two aspirins and a good night's sleep won't ease, and that is President Johnson's medicare proposals. Last week 24,000 members of the A.M.A. swarmed into Manhattan for their annual convention. The question of what to do about medicare-or, more precisely, how to oppose it-was the main issue facing the A.M.A.'s governing body. There was very little it could do that would be effective, since the House of Representatives has already passed a medicare bill, and the Senate Finance Committee has just approved...
...profoundly political. For you seek out the common pleasures and visions, the terrors and cruelties of man's day on this planet, and I would hope you would help dissolve the barriers of hatred and ignorance, which are the source of so much of our pain and danger...
...reasoning, he talked his wife and three children into joining other volunteers in repeatedly dunking their faces in a wash basin while he took their electrocardiograms. Their heart rates promptly slowed down. One of Wolfs most important findings was that fear intensified the reflex. If a man feels severe pain and suspects he is having a heart attack, Wolf concluded, he may panic, thus causing a reflex so marked that his heart will quit. Or chemical changes caused by the too-strong reflex action may throw the heart into equally fatal fibrillation (a useless twitching...
...world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country." He called this art of shreds and patches Merz, a meaningless word derived from Kommerz (commerce), but carrying with it connotations of both ausmerzen (to reject), Herz (heart), and Schmerz (pain). In the form of rubbish, Schwitters brought elements of reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks of a fellow artist...
...liquor as a medicine. It is, he asserts, not only the oldest of medicines but one of the most effective. It was the first and for long the only useful anesthetic. Alcohol is good in many cases of high blood pressure and heart disease, because it relieves the pain of angina and makes a low-salt diet more palatable. Because alcohol is the only drug that is also a food, Dr. Chafetz suggests that it might be given to some patients instead of intravenous feedings. Even in some diseases for which alcohol is supposed to be deadly, such as cirrhosis...