Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric fuses. The seriousness of the situation will be appreciated when I tell you that not only is the operating theater in darkness, with the sterilizing apparatus out of use, but the labor ward is left without any light." Lucknow's Differin Hospital reported two nurses and one patient bitten by monkeys. A workman on the roof of a Lucknow locomotive workshop nearly fell off while wrestling with a monkey...
...Crochets are a peculiar bunch. They live in a decrepit shack in the bayous, breed children at will, and dream about building a house to go with the beautiful doorstep their oldest son found floating down the river one day. Papa is lazy, shiftless, and--inevitably--lovable. Mother is patient. The children are characters. And that's the play, with bliss in the form of a bunch of lilies inevitably hoisting the Crochets a step nearer heaven...
Since Jap bombs gutted the earth which bore Confucius-the earth which for millenniums had been worked by patient, quiet peasants-delicate filigree landscapes, white herons over blue lakes at dawn, shimmering moonlit waters of Li Tai-po are less popular themes in Chinese art. Nowadays Chinese artists turn their talents against the little monkeys without tails who have ravaged their country. Sometimes their weapon is anger, but often it is the peculiarly Chinese weapon of mockery...
...treatment for the relief of severe bronchial asthma, announced last fortnight, makes use of a sensational blood purge. The "Knott technique" removes part of the patient's blood, passes it through a precision machine which exposes it to ultraviolet light for a few seconds, then returns it at once to the veins. The new treatment was presented by Drs. George Miley and R. E. Seidel of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College before the Pan-American Homeopathic Congress in Cincinnati...
...Knott technique from ½ to 1½ pints of blood (depending on the patient's size) are exposed to ultraviolet irradiation every four to six weeks until the asthmatic symptoms decline markedly, then at greater intervals until treatment need be given only three or four times a year. Two-thirds of Dr. Miley's asthma patients "have shown very definite improvement...