Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made. The other is the world of God: the only world in which fearlessness and friendship are possible, and almost nothing else is. In Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world of the immemorially poor, "stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint...
...typhoid vaccines, dietary fads, bee venom serum, manipulation of gnarled hands and joints. Such treatments have now been largely discarded. More important, several different forms of arthritis have been clearly distinguished, each with its special therapy. Three recently developed blood tests also indicate what sort of arthritis a patient...
...Chinese officers clustered around the plotting boards. Other warning stations reported. The Jap was headed for Chungking, was only half an hour away. A black ball replaced the lantern on the warning poles, and Chungking's patient thousands trudged to the dugouts, where 25,000 A.R.P. workers distributed "air defense cakes" of wheat and corn flour...
Trucks & Toothbrushes. By last week in a little town (called "Tula," like many another Mexican hamlet) 50 miles north of Mexico City, a sweating crew of some 30 workmen had laid down their shovels and picks to await the finish of Mexico's rainy season. Their patient digging, off & on for three years, had finally uncovered this important fact: The ruined pyramid, palaces, monuments and artifacts their spades had been turning up were those of ancient Tula. For two square miles, nine feet under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains...
...Clinic gives "student menace" cases special atention. Any waitress or other dining hall employee who has a communicable disease, such as a cold, is considered a monace to the health of the students. With advice and pay from the Clinic, the patient must stay off the job until recuperation is complete. When an employee has been ill, before he can return to work he must submit to a checking over by the doctors at the Clinic...