Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas message to U.S. war-wounded expressed the hope that "peace can be won by the patient cooperation of men and women everywhere, working together in unity...
Cancer researchers have looked long for a specific poison secreted by cancer cells. If such a substance could be detected in a cancer patient's blood, early diagnosis should be easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
...Lobotomy is used chiefly for serious mental diseases: schizophrenia and other forms of dementia praecox, compulsive neuroses, chronic, long-standing depression or agitation. Most cases are cured or greatly improved. So far, neurologists have discovered no seriously harmful effects. The operation is dangerous (a slight miscalculation may kill the patient by cutting a cerebral artery), but the skilled surgeons performing it have had very few deaths...
...skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
...Health Insurance system, haggling has been chronic: British dentists are currently in a fee row with the Ministry of National Insurance (they demand ?9 9s. for a set of false teeth v. the Ministry's offer of ?7), and insurance physicians recently won a raise (to 15s. a patient) only after long dispute...