Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholarly work of necessity is done unobtrusively. Long hours of patient thumbing of volumes, searchings in obscure manuscripts for essential facts, do not contribute to stimulating applause or wide recognition. Yet it is just such labor which leads to valuable discoveries and important additions to knowledge. Upon arduous hours of research is built the present fabric of mental civilization...
...length the 62-year-old M. Doumergue was found chatting with a convalescent patient in a ward on the top floor. Cried courteous Mr. Herrick: "I trust the climb was not too fatiguing...
Recent Theories. Virus. Virus, of many forms, appears in every cancer patient and vitiates his blood, upsets the biochemistry homologous to the normal for the species, so that the organism cannot repair the damage done to the locale of infection or irritation. In consequence, cells (which with normal, healthy blood food would take their normally diverse form peculiar to the local tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer...
...pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that his patient has cancer, the careful doctor, from his store of knowledge and experience, which no laymen need doubt or seek to supplement, eliminates all other possibilities. However, the physician keeps a possible secondary lung involvement ever in mind. A skilled radiographer should also be called in before final decision. ("Primary Cancer...
...Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected to get at least the commendation of the English Department. I didn't get anything but seven days in Connecticut with a senior who had generals, a very bad disease, and a dog which had--well, it just loved to scratch...