Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most glorious conquests throughout the centuries! . . . Italia, Italia bella was the cradle of your art. With the Italian Renaissance surgery attained one of its most transcendent periods through the labors of Vesalius Paracelsus and Pare . . . Ah, but you are too modest, you surgeons! The great Pare, leaning over a patient and raising his eyes to Heaven exclaimed: 'I have bandaged this man's wound, but God is healing...
Last week the Egyptian Cabinet refused this offer. Mr. Rockefeller, patient, let it stand. He had accepted a form for his deed of gift drawn up by the Egyptian Cabinet itself; yet when it was returned to Egypt with his signature attached, Egyptian political stumbling-blocks barred its acceptance. Mr. Rockefeller waits...
...Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word went forth that the President loves handshaking, that he would like to shake all the millions of hands in the U. S. But the fact remained that he quit?at least temporarily. It was estimated that by avoiding this uneconomical?and, according to Dr. Coupal, health-endangering...
...Developed for smallpox by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). In all vaccinations the patient is deliberately given a mild attack of the particular disease he wants to guard against. The blood then develops certain properties which kill off the attacks of that disease, except in the very greatest concentrations...
Rapid Blood Tests. The careful Wassermann blood test for syphilis requires five reagents and almost 24 hours' reacting time, an inconvenience to the diagnostician and a nerve-racking wait for the patient. Dr. R. le Kahn of the Michigan State Health Department demonstrated a new test which requires only one reagent and 15 minutes to show definitely the blood condition. His department and the U. S. Navy have adopted his quick method, it was said...