Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees. He removed the knee linings and covered the joints with pieces of non-waterproof cellophane from a shirt wrapping (waterproof cellophane, such as cigarets are wrapped in, is no good: its lacquer coating would irritate). Reopening one knee a few weeks later, he found the cellophane still there, flexible and intact, left it there. His patient, regaining limberness in both knees, took up dancing...
...already been tugging at the child for five hours with her bare hands, had broken the umbilical cord and, gory to the elbows, was digging for the placenta when he arrived. Dr. Newman gave the mother sulfanilamide, offered a grim prognosis and went home. A week later the patient walked into his office, boomed: "Doctor, please give me some medicine to keep me from breeding so fast...
...patient who vomits a little blood may simply have ruptured a small blood vessel after prolonged retching; if he really has a gastric hemorrhage from ulcer, he is likely to gush a pint of blood...
...Besides his regular meals, he got amino acids (milk protein) intravenously, was fed a special soup made from ground meat, eggs and milk by stomach tube. One of the chief medical advances that emerged from the treatment was a method of measuring how much nitrogen a severely burned patient needs...
...treatment has cost more than $10,000, half of it contributed by the Red Cross for nursing. But his recovery has been of immeasurable value to U.S. medicine. Says Dr. Lund: "We learned more from Johnson about the treatment of burns than has been learned from any other single patient...