Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...
...comparable to those from the Steinach operation on men have been obtained for women by use of the Xray. The X-ray is extremely penetrating, throws shadows of the anatomy on suitably placed photographic films, which the physician may study for better diagnosis. To get such a photograph the patient is exposed to the rays for only some seconds. Prolonged exposure causes. destruction of tissue. So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause...
...intermediate exposure time of the ovaries and their related bodies, Dr. Steinach as far back as 1920 theorized, would slow up or stop the ova production of a patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body...
Treatment. No known drug will kill the parasite. The patient should take castor oil or calomel (under medical supervision), then epsom salts and intestinal antiseptics. Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae. The disease is rarely fatal, yet always uncomfortable...