Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honest. He is able. Attending Senate each and every day calls for faithfulness. He is faithful. Remaining unruffled and unhurried when the other Senators come buzzing in from their trips, speechmaking, weekends or committee meetings, calls for patience and tact. Sitting in his back seat, he is a patient as a turtle, as tactful...
...tall, old doctor stops at a patient slumped in a wheel chair. He lifts the patient's dull face by the chin and turns to the visitors. The loose ends of his black string tie, which he always wears in a bow, flop about as he explains the case. "This man," he says in effect, "is in the early stages of paresis.* The paralysis has not advanced hopelessly. By injecting into his blood the germs of malaria or serum from the blood of people sick with malaria, we will stop the spread of the syphilis. The malaria toxins...
...salute him by standing. In a soft, kindly voice and with simple terms he explains that in paresis the spirochetes attack first the meninges (covering of the brain). Later they ulcerate the front lobes of the brain. Paralysis results. Attacks of malaria seem to cure the ulcers. A paretic patient can never be completely cured...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...
...hospital hall he found a surgeon's white operating coat. Soon he donned it and again sidled into the operating room. Considerate, he waited until Dr. Miller was through operating, until the patient was trundled away. Then he served his papers...