Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took up his stance in the doorway, facing the Royal...
...concluding words Sir William advanced to His Majesty's bed and submitted the Royal Warrant for signature. Slowly and laboriously but quite legibly the patient signed...
...specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy germs in which the chances of medical victory are enormously enhanced. The old-fashioned CRISIS was the climax of a short, decisive skirmish between the infective germs and whatever white germ-eating corpuscles the patient was lucky enough to possess...
Naturally, in the application of such treatment everything depends on the skill of the bacteriologist who examines the patient's blood and determines the nature of the injections. Therefore, British interest has focused sharply on Dr. L. E. H. Whiteby, the brilliant young bacteriologist who was called in by the elder royal physicians Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary (TIME, Dec. 3). Dr. Whiteby, with amazing speed, in 24 hours produced an autogenous vaccine from infected material taken from His Majesty. That vaccine was injected into the royal blood stream and directly...
Capt. Patterson's heart is in the air; notwithstanding that he never learned to fly. He tried hard. He spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer...