Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the Brooklyn Hospital had facilities for treating only 60 patients at a time, the use of insulin saved the hospital 286,695 patient days, over $80,000 worth of food & clothing, and an undetermined amount in building maintenance and new construction. Possible future savings in money and heartache are enormous : though only one quarter of the mental cases admitted to New York State hospitals are dementia praecox cases, the disease bedevils its victims so long, sometimes ending in hopeless deterioration, that such cases comprise 50 to 60% of the hospitalized mental patients. There are some...
...Medical College, Dallas, said this was just a newfangled notion. He cited the cases of two famous physicians-Sir James Mackenzie, "the father of modern cardiology" (1853-1925), and John Hunter (1728-93)-who lived strenuously for many years with serious heart diseases. He mentioned also the angina pectoris patient of the famed 18th-Century physician, William Heber-den, "who set himself the task of sawing wood for half an hour every day and was nearly cured...
Among others who joined in the denunciation of too much rest were famed Orthopedist Ralph K. Ghormley of the Mayo Clinic ("the day an arthritic patient gives up and goes to bed is the day he becomes a total cripple") and Psychiatrist Karl A. Menninger of the Menninger Clinic ("an automobile whose engine has become overheated as the result of being driven with the brakes set cannot be cured by resting...
Light on Lights. Before taking Harold out of his trance, Lindner told him to forget what he had said. Primed with leading questions, Lindner had little difficulty getting the same story from Harold at a later, conscious session. Eventually analyst and patient concluded that Harold's psychosis was rooted in Oedipean jealousy of his father, that his blinking sprang from his association of the theater's bright lights with the whole shocking experience. Lindner reports that the hypnoanalysis cured Harold's blinking...
...From Rio de Janeiro last fortnight came a report of a sensational new serum, "sutulina," said to have cured guinea pigs and one human patient of T.B. The Chilean and Brazilian doctors who developed it admitted their experiments were in an early stage. U.S. experts awaited further details...