Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hollow needle into the pleural cavity of the tubercular lung and lets some air, oxygen or nitrogen flow in. The lung collapses. He increases the pressure of the gas against the flaccid lung. This squeezes tubercular secretions out into the windpipe, like toothpaste out of a tube; and the patient expectorates. The pressure also brings healing blood to the lung, and after a time the sputum ceases to carry the germs of tuberculosis. At that time the surgeon discontinues his injections of gas into the pleural cavity; the" lung starts doing its proper work again...
...dirt. Still, what's the odds-dirt or blood? Both are good for the circulation ! . . . Oh, for the peanut venders . . . that used to enliven our funeral mobs. Anything to jazz up those curiously apathetic groups that huddled on the Westchester Court House steps. . . . Like subway crowds they waited, patient and dull. . . ." World subtitles: "One-Ounce Fag Lifts Counsel's Eyebrow," "Testimony is as Full of Beds as a Barracks...
...thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall never be killed while she lives, because they have given milk to her children. They fall down sometimes and want to die, but Mother will not let them and keeps a man to lift them...
German doctors discreetly remained silent. They know too well the legal, religious and ethical taboos of all countries against taking life. When absolutely helpless against disease, they might let the patient die (easing his pain with drugs if necessary). But to give him a lethal dose...
...Patient, detached, careful study by scholars is called for. If it is not done, other people will do the task in a different way and less effectively...