Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abuse, patient Sidney Hillman had learned, was often the measure of his effectiveness. Candidate Bricker's attack was a high point in the softspoken, bespectacled labor leader's strifebound career...
Said Byrnes with patient hope: "As war breeds war, so peace can be made to breed peace." But Byrnes summed up the spirit of the impending Peace of Paris when he said, speaking of the Italian colonial agreement: "The thing I like ... is that [it] does not require unanimity...
Every year rheumatic fever kills far more children than polio. Dramatic publicity has led the public to chip in over $94 per polio patient for research and treatment, but for every rheumatic fever victim, only 3? has been spent. For such work as the new Hopkins program, 146 U.S. insurance companies recently set up a joint research fund. Said Dr. Schwentker last week: "They have begun to realize that a crippled heart is worse than a withered...
...second stage follows two to six weeks later. Typical symptoms: swollen joints, fever, rheumatic nodules at the elbow, knee and other joints. "When it is typical, the disease is easy to diagnose," says Dr. Schwentker, "but the big majority of cases are not typical. The patient may suffer from vague, fleeting pains in the joints and have a low fever." Mistakes in diagnosis are again common until the heart's valves and blood vessels become inflamed...
Probable explanation of the cure: the shock permanently increases the output and even the size of the adrenal glands, pouring greater amounts of adrenaline into the patient's blood to relax his constricted bronchial muscles...