Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes that his unique record library, which will eventually be filed in the Army Medical Library in Washington, may be helpful in teaching psychiatry. Hitherto a student psychiatrist's acquaintance with his chief technique, the psychiatric interview, has had to be at second hand-an observer makes the patient too self-conscious to talk freely. The recording machine, says Dr. Rosner, bothers his patients...
Bleeding and Blistering. Even the "riglar" doctors, using the best science then known, were dangerous by modern standards. Bleeding "to syncope" (fainting) was often prescribed, and if a patient was very weak and his veins hard to come at, "recourse should be had to the jugglars." Blistering and cauterizing were matters of course. In case of wounds, pus was considered a good thing and was sometimes encouraged by planting a piece of horsehair or thread under the skin...
...reconstructing external organs, Dr. Frumkin ingeniously adapts well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...
...Philadelphia's distinguished physicians was so absent minded that he forgot his stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country...
...Patient, blunt-featured Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had waited. Now his northern flank was anchored on the sea, his southern flank secure. The time was at hand to resume the westward march-to Berlin, the north German plains, an eventual linking with Russia's allies...