Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exposed muscle with a special steel dilator, twisting and turning until he has formed a canal in the muscle through which he draws the tube of skin. The bare muscle, which now encases the tube, is covered over with a patch of skin from some other part of the patient's body...
...same operation is repeated on the other side of the arm. After the canals heal, an ivory peg is inserted in each one, and the patient practices moving these pegs with the stump muscles. Later on, a special artificial arm, made of many interacting levers and joints enclosed in leather, is fitted to the ivory pegs...
...operation [of the arm]," wrote the doctors, "is somewhat similar to that of a two-horse carriage, where the pull is . . . apportioned and equalized between the two ends of a lever, the whiffletree." Motor power is reduced to about 25% of normal, but this is still enough to enable patients to carry pails of water or pour water from one full pail into an empty one. The articulation is so perfect that the patient can hold and smoke a cigaret with ease...
Back to the grinding struggle, after a week's rest in the Adirondacks, went Donald Nelson, the patient, plodding ex-Sears, Roebuck vice president now under fire for failing to be Production Boss in fact as well as in title. He had gone away dog-tired, his nerves deckle-edged, and almost willing to give in and give up. Now the weary wrinkles had left his brown eyes; the sag was gone from his padded cheeks; he was as fighting mad as a peaceable man can get. His friends in WPB passed word around: a new Nelson had returned...
...days' observation usually uncovers high blood pressure induced by benzedrine sulfate, low blood pressure induced by thyroid extract and other drug-induced disorders. In 1918 an A.E.F. hospital had an entire ward full of sufferers from a mysterious, persistent diarrhea. An observer camouflaged as another patient discovered that all the diarrhetics were bribing a night orderly to steal purgatives for them...