Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tooth extracted was admitted to a hospital. He had been bleeding steadily for several hours and it was feared that he might die. Only a year ago his brother had died from loss of blood after cutting his hand. Two doctors decided to give the patient thromboplatin, a horse serum. Within 24 hours the wound had stopped bleeding...
...leading the attack on this ancient custom, and cites the case of a specialist in diseases of the eye who treated a colleague suffering from a severe in flammation of the iris. The specialist said that he had visited his colleague's residence 20 times and that the patient had come to his office at least 300 times. He demanded 1700 marks in payment and the colleague objected. The court, finding that free treatment of other physicians is the custom, refused to grant judgment in the case...
...years ago a young French doctor, Henri Vadon, was assisting at an operation. An inadvertent movement of the patient drove deep into his hand the point of a syringe known to contain deadly bacilli. Immediate treatment would probably have saved him, but he chose to finish the operation without attending to himself. As a result his arm became infected and had to be amputated last week. "For his devotion to duty under exceptional circumstances" the French Government caused Dr. Vadon to be decorated with the cordon of the Legion of Honor, on the day after his arm was amputated...
...your Aug. 24 issue, Forbes-Robertson's autobiography, Page 14, "is a snapshot album." Miss Harrington's Glorious Apollo, " a florid woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn," and "only a patient reader will . . . win through, to the central piece of work that recommends" Miss Wilson's The Kenworthys. No other books are reviewed...
Time end truth broke down the Sanhedrin and the Spanish Inquisition. Yale students must be patient...