Word: patient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered the nature of the specific chemicals demanded by a given organ for its growth and normal function. Perhaps it may then become feasible to supply the living body with the substances indispensable to the development of any organ, or to its regeneration. Instead of injecting hormones into a patient, we .would supply the glands with appropriate nutrient substances and induce them to develop, or to regenerate, and again to secrete hormones. To bring about the regeneration within the pancreas . . . would be a far more efficient method of treating diabetes than to inject insulin daily into the body...
This fall of the Olympics away from the sportsmen to the control of the politicians and statesmen, which is the result of running them on too big a scale, has reached a serious stage. When so patient and sportsmanlike a figure as Bingham can no longer associate himself with the games, it is clear that something rots and smells in the state of affairs...
...more money will probably be demanded for further improvement. In taking note of this possibility, the University must realize that undergraduates are paying all they can. At the moment it is enough to realize that the nursing staff of the Infirmary under Miss Corbett's direction will treat each patient with warmth and understanding as well as with efficiency...
Ervin Elzie Joy, 28, of Vancouver, Wash., operates a railroad drawbridge. In his spare time he is an Unlicensed air pilot and builds planes. After five years of patient tinkering, Inventor Joy produced a 28-foot, wingless, flat fuselage shaped like an attenuated sting ray, which he called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared...
...Medical Association. These policies are those which were adequate half a century ago, before the population had mushroomed and the physician in private practice could fulfill its needs. They have consistently opposed the development of systems of medical care which threaten to minimize the importance of the old doctor-patient relationship, but which would provide better care for a greater number. The comparatively high standards of health in our cities, with people working under poor industrial conditions, is evidence that institutionalized medicine is the best method of caring for them. Legislation which would provide funds for the continuance...