Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trusteeship, this same instinct forgetting the votes count themselves made him side with Churchill and the U.S.' Navy, prefer to let each power run its own show in the Pacific and elsewhere. He felt that Mr. Roosevelt, at Yalta and on other occasions, had been too gentle, too patient and reluctant to exert U.S. power...
...Bock has chosen this plot of land because of its accessibility to all the Houses and buildings of the University. "Unlike Stillman, which presents a great problem of inconvenience to patient and physician alike, the new building would be accessible...
...patient, meanwhile, did not seem sure which doctor she preferred. In general the leftist press regretted M. Mendès-France's departure. But it turned a not unhopeful face toward his successor. Said the resistance organ, Front National: "Your turn now, M. Pleven, to see what you can do. ... To you our hand...
Their method is simple, requiring only a piece of vein and a few bits of bloodvessel-sized vitallium tubing. (Vitallium is the non-irritating surgical alloy.) Given an artery with a section missing or damaged, the doctors snip each end neatly, then cut a section of one of the patient's own veins for a patch. (Loss of a vein is not dangerous, as other veins readily take over its work...
Favorite drugs were "mercurials, calomel, opium, niter, Glauber's salts, Dover's powders, jalap, Peruvian bark-and by the 1840s, quinine" in heroic doses. One doctor reported a patient who took so much calomel that his teeth fell out, then the upper and lower jawbones came out "in the form of horse shoes." One treatment for the ague involved putting the patient in a draft between two cabins, stripping off his clothes, pouring cold water over him until he had a "pretty powerful smart chance of a shake...