Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imaginative treatment for alcoholics: a live eel in a cup of wine. Forced to drink this lively cocktail, the tippler would presumably be disgusted by all future potations. Modern doctors are still using a variation of this old cure. Latest results on a remarkably large number of patients were reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight...
...first glance, patient readers of the Chicago Tribune thought Colonel Bertie McCormick was off on another simplified spelling jag. But the Page One story was simply a new way of reporting that old story, a new telephone directory. Reporter John T. McCutcheon Jr., son of the Trib's revered, retired cartoonist, had taken every word from names in the phone book...
...doctors are also considering the new drug myanesin (TIME, July 12), and may suggest crushing one of the patient's phrenic nerves (TIME, Jan. 27, 1947) to stop the spasms of the diaphragm that cause the hiccups. Miss Lucas, whose weight has dropped from 129 Ibs. to 85, is willing to try almost anything...
...WASHINGTON, a patient House committee prepared to listen to arguments on the question: Should atheists be granted radio time to reply to religious broadcasts...
Mine Own Executioner. Perceptive melodrama, with Burgess Meredith as a preoccupied psychiatrist, and Kieron Moore as the patient that got away (TIME...