Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier, standing ankle-deep in Chungking mud, lit a cigaret with a Chinese dollar and laughed. A patient child cut a doll from currency and its mother said nothing. A ricksha coolie, squatting beside the road, thumbed through a fat roll again & again. He waved away a customer, saying that he had enough...
When special cases in Baltimore hospitals began getting propethylene, its advantages became clear:1) though it has an etherish smell, patients rarely fight when going under; 2) it is safer to give than ether (less need be given; concentration is low in a patient's blood); 3) in warm weather (and climates) the effect lasts longer than ether's; 4) it does not evaporate as readily as ether, which makes it advantageous for use in the tropics...
...institutions both before and concurrently with his visits to our clinics. In his peregrinations about the city for six years or more a great many physicians examined him in the various dispensaries . . . and all completely overlooked the diagnosis. During this time, members of the community were exposed, for the patient mingled with others and even visited public baths regularly." (Fortunately for Philadelphians, leprosy is not very catching...
...exactly like those of syphilis or yaws (a tropical disease characterized by sores on the skin). In 1939, Mexico's Dr. Francisco Leon y Blanco published the results of experiments on himself and 31 Mexican and Cuban volunteers, all of whom had been inoculated with material from pinta patients. Dr. Leon y Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears on a leg or arm (there may be several of these and they last for months without breaking the skin). Then a cluster of similar spots...
...doubtful whether Leonardo ever embraced a woman in love. . ." Leonardo's first patron was Lorenzo de' Medici, lavish ruler of Florence. But Leonardo served himself miserably: he was ridden by a perfectionism which prevented him from finishing a work. Even the patient Lorenzo finally let his artist go-to Milan, where he served the great Duke Ludovico Sforza. There Leonardo ranged through "interior decoration, gadget design, city planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science...