Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of all, he praised the Army nurses who ministered to him as a sick patient, and not just as a "nigger...
...chew your sore throat away. For septic sore throat, tonsillitis, mouth infections and throat abscesses, White Laboratories have developed a greenish, minty chewing gum, containing 3¾ grains of sulfathiazole in each "tablet." According to last week's Apothecary, a patient who chews the gum for 30 minutes to an hour gets a high concentration of the drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into...
Though grafts from the patient himself have the best chance of success, there are cases (as in bad burns) when a patient has no skin to spare. Then the surgeon must resort to skin from a person of the same blood type. The convicts hope to be able to give skin to soldiers as well as children. With the idea of establishing a plentiful supply for this purpose, Dr. Herbert Maskell Goddard of Philadelphia, the penitentiary's board chairman, who organized the bank, hopes to get other prisons to follow Eastern's lead and "make this a national...
...Congressmen, in their haste to have done with the whole thing, brooked no argument. Budget Director Harold D. Smith, trying as a patient civil servant to argue for the Treasury program, found the Ways & Means Committee an impatient listener. (Said one jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and after a couple of Democrats got through with him it was Good-bye Mr. Chips.") Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who tried to convince the Committee that nothing less than $13.8 billion in new taxes would stave off inflation ($6 billion to be re fundable after...
John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large a litter...