Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny spring flowers, one white, one lavender, peeped from the lapel of his flowing black coat. His broad jowls were momentarily at rest, his eyebrows arched like innocent cupid's bows. Under subpoena by the Truman Committee, John Lewis had appeared gladly. There he sat, as guileless and patient as a volcano. He was ready to explain his threat of a coal strike...
...physician faced with a case of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, the eye infection now circulating in the U.S., especially among war workers (TIME, Dec. 28), has had to let the disease run its unhurried course for one to eight weeks. All he could do was try to make his patient as comfortable as possible; there was no known cure for "shipworker...
...year-old patient while still in his teens had learned to love a raw egg or two in a glass of wine, had lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...
...public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...