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Word: patients (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Slaughter did his spiking job a month ago, a group of Brooklyn players came to Jackie and said: "If they give you the works, give it back to them-and the team will be behind you 100%." That was the day Jack Roosevelt Robinson won his long, patient battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...latest charge may give Dr. Brandenburg more trouble. When the cops swarmed into his operating room, they captured two women who had already been operated on and a third who was lying on the table. Although these patients had asked for operations (and had presumably paid the doctor), they turned state's evidence. In an abortion case, New York law holds the patient as guilty as the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: $500,000 Mill | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Electric shock treatments have apparently been successful in treating some forms of insanity, but doctors are beginning to suspect that the "cure" may be worse than the disease. The treatment, a jolting shot of high-powered current through the brain, causes convulsions that may dislocate the patient's jaw, break his bones, or even kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Shocking | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Liddell Milligan tried a new machine that feeds into the brain a weak electrical current automatically adjusted to the brain's resistance. Instead of shocking the brain, the current puts it in a coma. Like the shock treatment, the new electrical shot-in-the-brain momentarily stops the patient's heartbeat and breathing. But after a course of comparatively mild treatments under electronarcosis, he wakes up a changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Shocking | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Puzzle of the 17 Patients | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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