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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Hang On. When Brand began his experiment, he hid the straitjackets to keep other attendants from using them. Now, he says with a grin, he has forgotten where he hid them. There is also less need, he finds, for "chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Are the Straitjackets? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins, surgeons examined their patient again. Their verdict: Joe is suffering from calcium deposits on the right heel, an affliction common enough among ballplayers but most often occurring in the elbow of a player's throwing arm (and then loosely referred to as "elbow chips"). The deposits are also akin to bursitis, in which excess calcium settles in sacks near the joints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Few Weeks or Forever? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...immediate treatment of Patient DiMaggio the medicos prescribed injections of novocaine and saline to ease the pain, plus local X-ray applications. Future treatment would depend on how Joe responded, but it was pretty clear that he would have to keep off his feet as much as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Few Weeks or Forever? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bedside Manner | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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