Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...systems from early childhood, but the majority are able to throw off the disease through their natural powers of resistance. Others fail to develop this immunity and the infection flares up and becomes pulmonary. The new test consists of a serum which is mixed with a sample of the patient's blood. This serum reacts positively only when the tubercular process is still actively present, and not when it merely has existed in the past. It is not affected by syphilitic toxins. While he does not claim that his test will make possible 100% accuracy in diagnosis and complete...
Hornets are swarming to the mausoleum of Tut-ank-Amen in the Valley of the Kings-evidently attracted by some ingredient used in treating the objects taken from the tomb. Two physicians advanced upon a patient in Clinton, Iowa, to determine his blood pressure. He opened fire with two revolvers, wounded one doctor, shot himself. He then died...
During the crisis in his illness, Mr. Gompers was in a partial delirium, muttering incoherent phrases about labor conferences and meetings with government officials. The doctors had some difficulty in persuading the patient to remain in bed, since he declared himself fit enough for regular work...
These manuscripts, loaned to the University by George A. Plimpton of New York, are here for only a short time. They are the life-work of some patient penman, the fancies of an artist "all shaven and shorn". "Look two and two go the priests, then monks with cowls and sandals. And the penitents dressed in white shirts, a-holding the yellow candles." They are a curious collection, full of interest for scholar and antiquarian; food for the imagination and the artistic taste of anyone who examines them...
...unusual case of fever, believed to be due to peritonitis, is reported from Escanaba, Mich. Dr. H. J. Defnet, City Health Commissioner, reports that he and five other physicians have examined a girl patient suffering for ten days from a temperature of around 114 degrees. At times the temperature apparently went higher, but clinical thermometers at hand could record no higher. Surgical interference was declined, and the physicians in attendance are awaiting developments...