Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to ... express the appreciation of The Star [published by the patients of the U.S. Marine Hospital for lepers in Carville, La.] . . . and others of the patient body who read your account of the Hornbostel [leprosy] case [TIME, May 27]. The quality of your reporting was conspicuous by the absence of sensationalism...
They can, of course, and it is Tom Matthews' job to see that they do. His staff is familiar with patient memos which begin: "The Managing Editor views with alarm the following: 1) common misspellings (harrassed for harassed, etc.); 2) the use of retain for keep, slew for killed, reveal for anything less than the revelations of William Blake or Moses...
...that thousands of TB victims will beg for treatment at once, that thousands more will postpone urgently needed therapy in the expectation that streptomycin will cure them day after tomorrow. It will not-for the drug, a distant relative of penicillin, is exceedingly scarce (cost: $24 to $50 a patient a day), and the results, however promising, do not yet warrant its widespread use. Dr. Hinshaw's great hope: that a better, cheaper drug will soon appear...
...accident. Thirteen years ago a London, Ont. obstetrician named Evan Vere Shute became interested in vitamin E, whose natural sources are in whole grain; he had a hunch that it produced a salutary effect on heart and blood vessels. When a fellow member of his church-his only male patient-complained of tremendous heart pains, Shute put him experimentally on cold, pressed wheat-germ oil. For three months he got relief. When both patient and doctor ran out of funds, the treatment was abandoned...
...friend, Dr. Arthur Berge Francis Vogelsang, had just the man: a 68-year-old pensioner who was dying of hypertensive heart disease and hemorrhages, was due to have his spleen removed the next day. The attending surgeon was willing to try the vitamin, since he was afraid the patient would die on the operating table. Within a week after treatment the old man was out of bed, bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with the dinner trays. Dr. Shute's barber, Roy Bicknell, was in agony from coronary heart disease; three weeks after taking the vitamin...