Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When safely out of earshot of Russia's secret police, Russia's patient, long-suffering peasants fitted new words to an ancient singsong tune: If there were no winter...
...lieutenants with bicycle pumps, shoemaker's pliers and clubs. Pfeiffer was taken home "half dead," his friends said. A U.S. Army doctor who tried to examine him was waved away; even Hungarian civilian doctors were barred. A Communist-appointed police surgeon took over the case, pronounced the patient's injuries superficial. If that was so, Pfeiffer's wife wanted to know, why had her husband not regained consciousness? Oh, said the police surgeon, somebody had given him "too much medicine...
...announced by Dr. I. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College. Dr. Huddleson, one of the world's leading authorities on undulant fever (TIME, Nov. 18), had tried sulfadiazine against the disease. The drug killed undulant fever bacteria in a test-tube but did not work in most patients. The doctor decided that inactive antibodies in the patients' blood somehow neutralized the drug. To make the drug work, perhaps the patient needed a supply of active antibodies. Dr. Huddleson gave his patients transfusions of whole blood containing active antibodies, then administered sulfadiazine. It worked...
Problem Teachers. Teachers are sometimes as big problems as the children. There are ten on the Summerhill staff; they have been thoroughly indoctrinated and soon learn to be as patient as Mr. & Mrs. Neill. But when the regular staff was in service during the war, the school had a pretty bad time...
...patient diggers of the American School of Classical Studies last week finished their twelfth season of rooting into ancient Athens. They had concentrated on the Agora, or central public square, one of the oldest continually inhabitated spots on earth. Beneath the Agora, history and prehistory lie in deep-stacked layers. All the great trends in civilization have touched this enchanted area, as they are touching...