Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart, and her doctor knew just what to prescribe: opera. He ordered an alcove constructed in her bedchamber, and there artists nightly performed excerpts from the operatic works of the great French composer Lully. Before long (as a music historian during the reign of Louis XIV tells it) the patient was cured of severe melancholia, which she had originally contracted when her lover jilted...
...month ago, Gormley could not climb a flight of stairs without distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction of his descending aorta- scar tissue, perhaps, from his knife wound...
Into the Brain. Because the technique involves drastic brain surgery before the electrical current can do its work, explain Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Boston City Hospital's Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark, it is only for the occasional patient whose condition is severe enough to justify the heroic procedure. But it offers more hope of substantial surcease than any other treatment now available...
From Dour to Cheery. Their patient, say Drs. Ervin and Mark, was "usually a dour and surly individual," at the best of times. After they fitted him with electrodes and gave him a little transistorized stimulator capable of sending a weak current through his thalamus whenever he pressed a button, he cheerfully reported absence of pain after 15 or 20 minutes. If he kept the current on for 45 minutes to an hour, the pain relief lasted as long as six to eight hours and gave him a night of uninterrupted, pain-free sleep - an invaluable benefit. During the last...
When he kept it on for long periods, his family noticed that his speech was slurred, he seemed a trifle tipsy and unduly gay. The patient himself said that a jolt of current left him feeling as though he had downed two martinis - with (he added benefit of immeasurably greater pain relief...