Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winston Churchill who had lived a "gay and lordly" life as a subaltern in the 4th Hussars at Bangalore, India, in 1896. Age had broadened his beam and stolen his hair. It had not changed his view on the "patience and knowledge" of the Government of India. "It is patient," Churchill the Subaltern wrote nearly 50 years ago, "because, among other things, it knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down." Still a scrapper, Churchill the Prime Minister turned on the rich flow of rhetoric which stiffened British spines in the darkest hours...
Against the patient, implacable sea a leaky boat must be constantly bailed. The Japs learned the lesson on dry land: in southeast China, where the sea of Chinese resistance still surged after more than five years. Where a Japanese soldier stood, and within the area where the comrades of his garrison could range, there was the kind of peace the Japs liked. But where no soldier stood in the country of the conquered, there was the timeless surge of reconquest...
Gonorrhea. Some 80% acute (i.e., new) gonorrheal infections can be cleaned up by a single massive intravenous dose of sulfathiazole, reports the Military Surgeon. All the symptoms do not vanish at once, but no further treatment is needed, and the soldier-patient can return to duty the day after medication...
Syphilis. The one-day syphilis cure-again for new infections only-combines: 1) single massive doses of mapharsen (an organic arsenic compound); 2) a ten-hour fever (106° F.) artificially induced by hot humid air while the patient lies in a coffinlike cabinet developed in part by General Motors Research Director Charles Kettering. By increasing the body's tolerance for arsenic, the fever enables doctors to compress the recently developed five-to ten-day treatment (without fever) into...
Within a few months patients can do many of the things they could do with a real arm. They drive automobiles, write letters. "The sense of touch," the doctors explained, "can be acquired to a remarkably subtle degree. The trained patient can be blindfolded and still recognize with his prosthesis (sawbone lingo for artificial arm) the slightest difference in the size of objects, as well as variation in consistency, and can also gauge the force with which he may wish to grasp an object...