Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exposure. When, after a year's patient work, the picture was clear and complete, Washington acted. On June 30, 1942 U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude G. Bowers presented a 20-page memorandum to the Chilean Government which suggested politely that the existence of such a spy network was not only a violation of Chilean sovereign rights as a neutral but a menace to the entire Western Hemisphere...
Disadvantage of the wax treatment is that the unbandaged patient is usually an unpretty sight, even to case-hardened hospital attendants. This esthetic factor, Dr. Pendleton suspects, in part explains former neglect of the wax treatment...
...liver oil and sulfanilamide (plus traces of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus oil). This wax film is gently washed off the burn with warm water and renewed daily. The burn is not cleaned before spraying, although it may be dusted with sulfa powders; nor is it bandaged afterward. The patient is also given the plasma transfusions and high protein diet common to other forms of burn therapy...
...submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed his appendix, stitched him up again. "It took...
...Cinemactor Murphy remains merely kind and patient...