Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchell's discovery, after years of patient investigation, is of great historical interest; for, although many theories of her innocence have been expounded, this is the first time that definite proof of it has been discovered...
...resolution passed by the doctors, effectively reversing the stand of the Association taken in 1917, when the doctors said that liquor was not needed in the treatment of disease. "Repeal the provisions in the Volstead Act that limit the doctor to prescribing not more than a pint to a patient every ten days," the doctors demanded. The liquor resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said that, although no value was found in the use of alcohol in acute infections...
...solvent power of American ideals, to learn that immigrants, however diverse their tongues and separate their races, turn at once with great and spontaneous enthusiasm to the culinary preferences of their adopted land. So long as the democratic spirit of the cafeteria reduces all classes to the lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured by the inroads of French, Italian, or Russian menus or even...
...American Bronchoscopic Society - Dr. Sidney Yankhauer, of Manhattan, described how cancer can be relieved by means of a chain made of three links, preferably platinum, with a capsule containing radium in each link, which, in a rubber casing and weighted with a gold ball, is swallowed by the patient and kept in the intestines several hours a day. Other cancer treatments were outlined by the learned members. All agreed that there was no cure...
...many estimable authorities do not recognize the intimate relation between criminology and pathology. ... A pickpocket who for future identification is merely 'fingerprinted' may, if properly examined, be found to have highly developed homicidal tendencies. The same may be true of any mere misdemeanant-just as a patient brought to hospital because of a minor disorder may be found to be suffering from a serious contagious disease of which his obvious condition was a premonitory symptom...