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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, cold air of the Andean altiplano, Bolivia's two-year-old democracy fought for breath to live. President Enrique Hertzog, a doctor experienced in pulmonary problems, had pulled his patient through five states of siege. Last week a fresh complication set in. The doctor himself, worn out and suffering from kidney and heart trouble, took a leave of absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Fight for Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Fight for Life | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...pitfall for pathologists: if the patient has been taking medicine containing phenacetin (an ingredient of Anacin, for instance), the solution would be cloudy instead of reddish purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Frogs, No Rabbits | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Arthritis | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Exciting new history is being written with blood," and went on to say, "Just what the isolation of living white blood cells will turn up, scientists cannot predict at this time. But. . . one important use may be the introduction of living white blood cells into the bloodstream f a patient under treatment for cancer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Brands Herald Story on Discovery Untrue | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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