Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting on his first year as head of the Veterans Administration, patient General Omar Bradley had sharp words for the ex-doughboys who would rather stay in the "52-20 clubs" (drawing $20 a week up to 52 weeks) than take low-paid jobs...
...Billings Hospital, 97 men & women suffering from severe stomach and intestinal ulcers have submitted during the past three years to a revolutionary operation for their disorder. Its discoverer: Dr. Lester Reynold Dragstedt, gentle, stooped professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medical School. His operation: opening the patient's chest above the diaphragm, cutting the two vagus nerves where they lead to the stomach and intestines...
After a vagus operation, ulcers heal rapidly, the stomach quiets down and the patient leaves the hospital within twelve days. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgeon Francis D. Moore reported that vagotomy is especially effective for young or middle-aged men with a long history of peptic ulcers. Nonetheless, Drs. Dragstedt, Moore, et al., advise the operation only after diet and other treatments have failed. For nervous stomachs and the "tensions and strains of modern life," says Dr. Dragstedt, preventive psychoanalysis may be better than nerve-cutting...
...than previously tried. In a bulletin of the American Heart Association, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital announced that with massive penicillin doses (up to 20,000,000 units a day) it is possible to cure the subacute form of the disease "in almost every patient...
...specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient's excreta into a laboratory animal. Some pertinent polio facts...