Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to be paying much attention. He was preparing to publish a catalogue containing photographs of hair roots from the heads of static sufferers. After it is off the press, he prophesied, all previous methods of diagnosis will become archaic. Doctors will simply jerk a hair from a patient's head, put it under a microscope, and leaf through Beebe's booklet to find the trouble...
...Indian arrow poison curare (rhymes with safari) is sometimes used in abdominal surgery and in spastic paralysis, to relax taut muscles. But doctors have not generally liked it much, because an overdose will kill a patient...
...always had what he called a "wake hour" beginning at 2 a.m. It finally turned out that, when the patient was four, his father always rose at that time to go to work, often made love to his wife before leaving...
...woman who thought anything anyone else touched was thereby polluted. For reasons only Dr. Brill can explain, the patient was temporarily better just after the execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for murder...
...These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness...