Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal of the Red railway police. Cried one strike leader: "Be patient, fellows . . . We are reaching our goal...
...patient drinks a glass of water containing the tasteless radioactive iodine. The treatment is not only simple, but should be inexpensive. Even as now produced by cyclotrons, it costs less than a surgical operation...
...Measures. Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin, three sulfa drugs (thiazole, diazine and merazine) plus alcohol and a dye called iodophthalein, injected in the patients' muscles or veins, works faster but it made 50% of Manteno's patients violently...
...theory behind the treatment, say the Drs. Sackler, is that histamine may give the brain a better blood supply by dilating the blood vessels. Electric shock, they think, works by increasing the amount of histamine. One advantage of the new treatment: the patient need not go to a hospital. The novel histamine report, Dr. van Ophuijsen suspected, would raise a "healthy storm...
...test, one electrode is placed against the abdomen, the other inserted into the vagina. If the patient has cancer in the genital tract (or is pregnant, or has certain nonmalignant tumors), the needle on the microvoltmeter dial swings to the left of the center line. If not, it swings toward the right. At Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, cancer was detected in 74 out of 75 cases of women found by other tests to have cancer. Of 616 women shown to have no cancer by the test, only five were later found actually to have the disease. The Burr-Langman...