Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctly scholastic advancement, but a socialized understanding of the country visited. Years hence the convictions of trust engendered in an impressionable period, plus the friendships made, might enable the visitor as an influential patriot in his own land to rise up and speak with authority on behalf of a patient handling of international affairs...
Such would, be the doctor's report on Mexico after the two years of the Obreton treatment. Internal disorders have been checked, leaving the patient sane, if weak. The economic condition is stagnant, but there are distinct signs of improvement, given proper nourishment. Outside complications of an international nature have remained in statu quo. Indications, on the whole, point to a gradual but complete recovery...
...nature", and he illustrates by reference to anaesthetics. New revelations prove, he says, that in many cases the elaborate paraphernalia of gas of chloroform is less safe and less effective than nature's own way of accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...
This newspaper science, however, served up to the credulous for popular consumption, must not be swallowed whole. The French discoverer of "self-anaesthesia" claims only that it will be useful for minor operations, such as extracting teeth, when the cause of pain is only momentary, and when the patient's heart is sound. Even at that, it may be widely useful; "Painless Dentistry", the promise of zealous advertisers, can become an everyday reality; and the ordeal of removing splinters and cinders will be only a matter of a few deep breaths...
...perform the miracles of healing which are sometimes attributed to him--although in his own words. "I have healed nobody", he denies it--the success is largely through the influence of his personality. A "gay, whimsical man", he can, in a few sentences, carry away a patient to complete forgetfulness of self, or make him laugh at the very thought of being sick...