Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machines. Abrams' main card is his method of "splanchno-diagnosis" (abdominal). It is applied to blood specimens, cultures of tissues from the body of a patient, or even to samples of his handwriting! The tests may be conducted in absentia with the patient 3,000 miles away. For best results the samples must be taken under certain prescribed conditions?dim light, no red in room, patient facing west! The specimens are placed on aluminum electrodes in a small, round box called a "dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate...
...Premier Andrew Bonar Law, who resigned the Premiership last June, was reported to be confined to his bed with serious throat trouble. A bulletin, signed by Sir Thomas Horder, famed cancer specialist, and Dr. Gould May said " the patient was suffering from an exacerbation of his recent feverish chill, necessitating continued confinement...
When employed, workmen contribute five pence a week to the National Health Fund, women four pence. Employers duplicate these amounts. The workmen must join an "approved society"-fraternal or commercial insurance organizations. The physicians who take insurance practice are assigned a panel of patients to whom they undertake to give all necessary medical service. They have been receiving 9s. 6d. a year for each patient, of which the approved societies pay seven shillings three pence, the Government making up the remainder. The Government is now in financial straits and proposes that the panel doctors...
...Anniversary of the first public demonstration of the use of ether anæsthesia in surgery was celebrated at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. It was there, on Oct. 16, 1846, that Dr. William T. G. Morton (1819-1868), then a young dentist studying medicine, anæsthetized a patient with ethyl ether, while Dr. Warren, senior surgeon, removed a tumor. Others (Long, 1842, Robinson, Liston, Jackson) have disputed with Morton priority in the use of ether, but the consensus of medical opinion has awarded him the honor...
...opposition to the Steinach operation comes almost invariably from "armchair" theorists who have never seen a patient who has undergone it. The facts are being accumulated by practicing surgeons...