Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent his Minister of Arab Affairs, patient Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey, to win over Ibn Saud. Last month the equally patient potentate, who acts only on his own terms, accepted the protocol. Forthwith Farouk himself sailed for Yenbo to pay his personal respects to the older King...
Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...phonograph droned in the grisly darkness for an hour and 50 minutes. At last the lights went up. In a jar of alcohol weltered a fine appendix. On the patient's belly "was a neatly closed incision. Ten days later, X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed...
...work," explained a clinic patient, "it's the aggravation...
Doctors now generally agree that mental irritation of some sort causes many a physical ailment. In Patients Have Families (The Commonwealth Fund; $3), published last fortnight, Manhattan's Dr. Henry B. Richardson suggests that the source of the irritation is usually to be found in the patient's family. Proposing that doctors consider "the family as the unit of illness," he supports his argument with the stories of patient after patient who could not get well until something was done to clear up his troubled family situation...