Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second injection of Seliger's solution pulled the patient right out of his delirium. Less than ten hours after the treatment began, the man walked out, calm and clear of mind. After a week of treatment, he had entirely recovered...
...Robert V. Seliger, Johns Hopkins' famed alcoholism specialist, first quieted the patient with sedatives, then fed into his veins two "quarts of a mixed solution of sugar, salt, vitamin B-1 and insulin. The hallucinations became milder; the patient went through the motions of tending bar, smoking (flicking imaginary ashes into an imaginary tray), and after a time began to repair an imaginary watch...
...examined the boy and growled: "This is almost hopeless; it's throwing money away." He was prevailed upon to operate anyway. Emerging from the operating room, Sauerbruch snapped: "Not a chance; he will be dead by morning. Please give me the check immediately." Next morning the patient sat up for breakfast...
Delirium tremens usually lasts three to six days, and sometimes ends in death. This was one of the worst cases the doctor had ever seen. When the patient, a 37-year-old bartender, was carried into the doctor's office, imaginary rats were gnawing his feet, wild-eyed cats scrambling over his body, flames licking at his stretcher. The man was screaming and jumping with terror...
Readers who like their fiction served with tea and crumpets in an atmosphere of tea cozies and grate fires will probably like this novel. In writing it, Author Dickens (great-granddaughter of Charles) pays her respects to the time-honored story of the patient-this one a wounded soldier-who falls in love with his nurse. But she has also created an affectionate picture of a Shropshire household. The Happy Prisoner exudes a country-fresh odor of plowed earth and drying horse blankets...