Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...areas of the West Indies. It enters the human body through any abrasion in the foot. It circulates with the blood and finally comes to the lower part of the stomach. There it multiplies and feeds voraciously on whatever its victim eats. In order to satisfy its demands the patient himself eats enormously of all kinds of cereals until his stomach becomes hideously distended. There is only one cure and that is to drink eucalyptus, which kills the jigger...
...This remedy is infallible. The only trouble is that in most cases the eucalyptus chokes the patient to death. It is easy to draw a parallel. The gold standard was an infallible remedy for financial dissension. Unfortunately it shows every sign of choking British trade to death. The coal strike is a direct result of the reimposition of the gold standard. Costs of sales abroad are being raised by this. Costs of production here had to be diminished in order to compete in the world market...
Publisher Don Mellett of the Canton Daily News fought Canton vice and police corruption fearlessly, openly. He was shot dead after midnight in his own backyard by two patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between...
...bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded bullet. The patient will probably live...
...Fluid again accumulated. So surgeons last week cut through his sixth rib (the routine procedure for an empyema operation), put a rubber tube into the opening, let the fluid drain off. With the fluid pressure removed the heart eased back into normal location on the left side. Probably the patient will live...