Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test: the enzyme is extracted from the urine with ether, then mixed with a solution of fresh umbilical cord and rabbit serum. Two weeks ago, in the first issue of the new South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, he reported his findings: if the solution remains clear, the patient has the enzyme in his body in larger than normal amounts-and may have cancer. If the solution becomes cloudy, the patient is free from cancer. The test's* big advantage, according to Dr. Harris: it can be made in 24 to 48 hours, costs only...
...December, Dr. Harris tried the test on himself; the solution was cloudy. One day last month he became ill, was admitted as a patient to his own hospital. Other doctors tried the test on him again. This time, the solution was clear, but no one told him. Dr. Harris was taken to Bishop Clarkson Memorial Hospital in Omaha, Neb. There one day last week he died- from cancer of the brain...
Care after operations has improved through blood-typing and blood-banking; new concentrates of amino acids and proteins nourish the patient who cannot eat a normal diet...
...surgical patient can never hope to lie in a bed of roses, but it is becoming less & less a bed of pain. Without making head lines, or much of a splash, a steady drip of knowledge goes on eroding much of the hospital's horror...
...years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...