Word: patient
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...carried to Argolis by men driven from home by pressure from the north. The shrine held an important place in ancient literature. Even Aristophanes, who burlesques the methods of the priests, seems to have believed in the power of the god. According to official records, lately discovered, the patient slept in the shrine over night, and in every instance "at dawn went away cured...
...Infirmary was opened at the beginning of the College year. It has so far accommodated eighteen patients. Eight of these have been surgical, half of which have required operation. One man might have lost his life if it had not been for the Stillman Infirmary, and the father of the patient has written a letter of warmest appreciation, in which he says: "If anything were needed to completely cement my attachment to Harvard, this furnishes it." Of the medical cases the most serious is one of typhoid fever. He is doing very well, however...
Under either plan of payment such accommodation shall include, for each patient, a bed in the wards, board, and ordinary hospital nursing. It shall not include medical attendance, it being expected that patients will be attended by their own physicians; but needy students may be attended by the Medical Visitor without charge. An extra charge shall be made for the use of private rooms and for special nursing, except that if the proper treatment of a patient who has assumed the annual fee of four dollars necessitates his isolation, he shall be accommodated in a private room without extra charge...
...infirmary will be run on the same lines as other private hospitals, each patient being entitled to choose his own physician. At present it is doubtful how the patients' fees will be arranged. One there are many ways suggested. One idea is that students may, by paying a certain sum, insure themselves for being sick during the year. By doing this a student, whenever taken ill, would have the use of the infirmary, medicines and nursing included, free of charge. If a man, however, did not insure himself, he would still have the use of the infirmary, only he would...
...room, and it is believed that in some way he lost his balance and fell. Dr. Bailey was found almost immediately, and accompanied the injured man to the Cambridge Hospital, where fractures in the left arm and thigh were set. At a late hour last night, the patient was still under the influence of either, and it was impossible to determine whether or not he was injured internally. Rich lives at Dighton, Mass. High father was sent for and arrived early in the evening...