Word: patients
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding him at his work, force him by blows to admit his imputed profession and accompany them. When he is introduced to his patient, he also meets Leandre, her true lover, who contrives, under the disguise of an apothecary, to arrange an elopement with his mistress, while the supposed doctor engages her father with his professional jargon. When the couple return married. the indignation of Geronte is so great that he is about to hand...
...chances" were taken. For instance, a patient, under ordinary circumstances, with a dislocated semilunar cartilage, would be perfectly contented to lead a more or less quiet life for a considerable length of time. The football player, however, as soon as the acute symptoms have disappeared, is quite unwilling to be prevented from playing. In no case was any sedative drug used in order to deaden the pain of an injury so as to allow a player to take part in a game before recovery was complete...
...other candidate is a member of the Graduate School who has for several years rendered conspicuous service on the board of directors and its principal committees. Many of the improvements in the conduct and equipment of the Hall in recent years have been mainly due to his careful and patient work. Would it not seem unfortunate to have this difficult business position go to a man of no previous experience, when there is opportunity to put in a man who has exceptional knowledge of the needs and possibilities of the Hall...
...greater efficiency than heretofore. The School is now able to send one of its graduates, registered by the State board of registration, to relieve the pain of any sick poor person who is in need of immediate dental treatment. More extended treatment is postponed until the patient is able to visit the infirmary of the Dental School...
...poorest and most ignorant of the population; but to many they may be obscured by the mist of some private grievance, or by the misleading appeals of politicans to party loyalty. It is the educated man who can best estimate the good which has resulted from two years of patient unremitting toil in the behalf of the city, under circumstances of almost insuperable difficulty. It is he who can fully measure the wisdom of continuity in the city's policy, and the folly of surrendering our hard won gains to a horde of greedy spoils...