Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois's Jessie Sumner had figured out that the whole thing was a scheme to "make Stalin dictator of Europe." California's Bertrand W. Gearhart cried that it was unconstitutional. For these and other objections, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were ready with patient, sense-making answers...
Billy Meers is four years old. Unless he gets at least a pint of blood a day, Billy Meers will die soon of renal edema, a kidney disease characterized by leakage of blood proteins into the urine. There are hundreds of patients like Billy in the U.S. Their blood needs are so extravagant that most doctors and hospitals give up the fight quickly, and the patient dies...
...healing dose is "measured by the 100th parts of a cubic centimeter" of ACS, injected under a patient's skin or into a vein. Two doses may last a lifetime. Large doses are harmful and are never used. Minute amounts make tissue activity speed up. Professor Bogomoletz believes that probable longevity goes with each dose, no matter for what reason it is given...
...used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...
Until 1914, doctors were not sure that toxoplasmosis was a separate ailment, until the mid-'30s were not sure they could recognize it. Diagnosis is made by i) symptoms, 2) testing a patient's blood, 3) finding the malarialike Toxoplasma parasite in the tissues of a dead patient. In the U.S., toxoplasmosis is still a medical collectors' item-a lethal rarity...