Word: patient
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...plastic surgeons. But whether a woman's motive is mere vanity or the need to restore the appearance after injury or surgery, there is an increasing variety of materials for building up the bosom. Doctors have tried everything from paraffin and glass balls to synthetic sponges and the patient's own body fat. But in New Orleans last week, specialists at an American College of Surgeons meeting were enthusiastic about a new plastic...
...parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey to review its peace-loving and patient attitude," declared the note, adding that if the cease-fire on Cyprus was not immediately restored, Turkey would undertake "unilateral intervention." Word spread that Turkey's expeditionary force massed at the seaport of Iskenderun was ready to invade Cyprus in 48 hours...
Nobody nowadays would seriously suggest limiting a medical examination to a look at the patient's hands, poked daintily through a curtain, as was once the case with high-ranking Moslem women. But, says the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Theodore J. Berry, there is still much to be said for a show of hands. In a new book, The Hand as a Mirror of Systemic Disease (F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia; $15), he reminds his colleagues that a variety of serious diseases can be detected by the study of a patient's hands...
Bowler's Thumb. Internist Berry's handbook is an up-to-date endorsement of old-fashioned observation. When a patient has hands with swollen-tipped, "clubbed" fingers, and if there is also reddish-brown coloration to the skin at the base of the nails, says Dr. Berry, the man is suffering from cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers...
Blue, White & Yellow. Azure crescents in the fingernails sometimes mean that a patient is suffering from Wilson's disease, a disorder that causes copper to collect in the brain, liver and cornea of the eye, and results in progressive tremor. Addison's disease, a serious malfunction of the adrenal glands, shows up in yellow fingernails. Vertically ridged nails may be a sign of nerveroot damage. Liver trouble sometimes results in opaque white nails that will not change color even when squeezed...