Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought along with it chills, fever and the so-called "serum sickness." It usually caused violent reactions; many physicians discarded it as the greater of two evils...
...tenth year and usually by the age of 16 has doubled for the fourth time. In children the tendency to growth added to natural tendency to recover hastens recovery from conditions that are handled with great difficulty in the adult. Provided proper treatment for these patients can be secured and the nutrition of the child maintained at its best, there seems to be almost no limit to which recovery may take place from even the most severe conditions. "To secure the maximum benefit that is furnished by growth," said Dr. Holt, "proper treatment must obviously be given; exercises to develop...
...year old girl was so small the heart could not function. Death seemed inevitable. A surgeon opened the sack which enfolds the heart. He exposed the heart itself. While it beat, he inserted his finger into the orifice, opened it. Then the sack was closed, and slowly the patient recovered...
...found necessary to repeat this treatment every few weeks, with the result that the patient's natural resistance is weakened...
...Alleged application of factory methods to the handling of patients. . . "Elimination of the personal relationship between physician and patient...