Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best to bed down helpless, untidy insane patients Dr. William R. Thompson of the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington, Ky., describes in the Journal of the American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
Peritonitis. Drs. Bernard Steinberg and Harry Goldblatt of Cleveland took pus from the diseased peritoneum of one patient, made a vaccine of the pus, and with that vaccine cured other cases of peritonitis...
...scarcely 60 years since hospitals were like charnel houses. Every other patient then carried into a hospital for surgical treatment, was carried out dead of blood poisoning, his wound a stinking fester. Joseph Lister, a young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons...
There are Harvards beyond the plot which stands poised between the rotunda and Memorial Hall. Not the least of these is that very different plot, the Arnold Arboretum, upon which Professor Charles Spragne, Sargent spent sixty years of patient effort. And he made it not only a Mecca for students of botany but a place of beauty and a Boston institution. In working for his science and for Harvard he did also a service to the commonwealth...
Fifty-seven men of the Public Service company took 15-minute shifts at the artificial respiration of Albert Frick. Up and down their arms went. The patient's father and mother were waiting outside the hospital room, praying that the 57 men would save the life of their...