Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that the patient's condition was extremely serious...
...Monday came the ominous report that the patient was taking no nourishment; that William Gerry Morgan, Washington stomach specialist, had been called in consultation; that oxygen and hypodermic injections had been necessary to sustain life through the night...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of that city which indicate that in a large majority of cases the heredity factor may be demonstrated as important. The figures demonstrate conclusively, they believe, that a family history of heart, kidney and brain disease is 'twice as common in a patient with high blood pressure as in the ordinary patient who has not a high blood pressure...
...Pasteur Institute, "a man of eminence and discretion," stepped to the lectern of the Academy of Medicine. Before him sat distinguished savants, among them Mme. Curie and Prof. Pierre Roux. From his quiet, austere laboratory Calmette had brought with him papers that were the fruit of 20 years' patient inconspicuous labor. Calmette read, finished, the chamber vibrated with vociferous applause...
...American Medical Association!" Subcostalgia. The surgical section heard Dr. Marshall Clinton, associate professor of surgery in the University of Buffalo, describe a condition called "subcostalgia," which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs...