Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington last week Secretary Kellogg dourly intimated that all the French reservations could not be met, but added with an air of quiet determination that the State Department would proceed with the negotiations in a patient and conciliatory spirit...
Before the. discovery of chloroform, hypnotism was used in operations to clear the patient's mind of fear, and in favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either...
Curious physiological effects have been obtained under hypnotism. The patient, with both arms extended in front of him, has been told that the blood would leave one arm and go to the other. The operator has then massaged one arm and the blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...
...thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed down to a peculiar slant on the left side, where he keeps his cigars. This feature repeats his beaverish aspect which is, of course, enhanced most of all by his well-earned reputation for patient industry and again, perhaps, by his familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged...
...London, that foggy, busy, chilly, Christian city, Daya Hewaviarne, manager of the Mahā Bodhi Society, announced that there would soon be built a temple to Buddha, the God who squats in the stuffy temples of Asia, to whom unhurried Buddhists babble their patient prayers. This first English temple to Buddha will make no effort to attract converts but will cater to present Buddhists now resident in London. The Buddhist priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange...