Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journal of the American Medical Association, Major C. S. Linton wrote that he had used sulfathiazole tablets on four patients with Vincent's infection of the tonsils. After two days, during which each patient sucked a small sulfathiazole tablet every two hours, all "reported definite improvement within 24 hours . . . complete clinical recovery in 72 hours...
...fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection in ten days, greatly improved a patient with multiple abscesses on his back, cured or improved several others...
Then, under the guidance of special tutors, kept by the Psycho-Educational Clinic, the twins started off on their A, B, C's and after patient months of instruction, both are now doing quite well, thank...
Other points from Dr. Ivy's paper: > In deep wounds of the face, the first consideration is to make sure that there is a good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...
Most of Dr. Ellsworth's hotel patients are men. Some are chronic heart or kidney cases, but the majority are drunks. They range from chronic alcoholics with the d.t.s, who have to be nursed back to health over a period of weeks, to women guests with a one-drink hangover. Some of Dr. Ellsworth's drunks are sorrowful, some are noisy and tear up the room, some come to the hotel for regular binges four or five times a year, some are just funny: e.g., one time Dr. Ellsworth, thinking a drunk was out cold, was telephoning...