Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep and goats were destroyed...
...system, first proposed eleven years ago by Dr. Frank Cecil Eve, consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, England, is based on a gentle, rhythmic rocking of the patient, instead of the pressure-and-release system worked out by Sir Edward Sharpey...
...wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
When the pain is a superficial ache or burning that gets worse when the patient sits or lies down, it is pretty sure to be arthritis or rheumatism. A simple way to tell arthritis from rheumatism is a blood sedimentation test: if the sedimentation rate is less than 10 mm. an hour, it is probably rheumatism...
Alvarez thinks it fairly certain that the patient is wearing herself out with footless worry...