Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gangrene in both legs-in Western Europe and in Asia. As a doctor, our Government is telling the world we have a very good cure for gangrene but we will apply it to one leg only while the gangrene in the other leg destroys the patient...
...stoop-shouldered doctor hurried down the steps to a dingy basement, borne of his Negro patients were already waiting for him. An ex-G.I. fidgeted in his chair, muttering: "Daid. . . . He's daid." A woman waited stonily, clutching her daughter with one hand and a note from school in the other. The doctor briskly pulled on a white coat and shot a rapid greeting at his youngest patient, a moon-faced ten-year-old: "Hello, Midgie, I hear you got a new football for your birthday." The boy grinned...
Dreams of Battles. The doctor put his arm around a patient's shoulder and ushered him into a small office. The patient, a husky young engineer, sat down nervously...
...utterly devastating." The body's smallest blood vessels are barely wide enough to let a single red cell squeeze through. When red cells clump, they plug these bottlenecks and deprive tissues of food and oxygen. The tissue cells die. When sludged blood kills important tissues, the patient dies...
Others have seen sludged blood before, but its significance had not been understood. Dr. Knisely thinks that red-cell clumping may account for many cases of mental illness (he found the central nervous system of one psychotic patient "showered with permanent plugs" that had destroyed many of the nerve cells). And he suggests that even aging and senility may be accounted for by accumulated damage from injuries and illnesses...