Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea what caused it. She had just been walking along Brooklyn's Greene Avenue, had doubled up, and then had fallen. Flustered, she allowed a passer-by to help her into a small, private hospital. But the doctor was about to perform an operation on another patient, and asked her to wait. She left, walked seven blocks to her home. The puzzling pain grew worse. After two hours Josephine's stepmother called a doctor. He took one alarmed look, decided to send her to a hospital. But the ambulance did not come for another hour. When emergency-ward...
...famed Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital, a blond British electroencephalographer named William Grey Walter unveiled his invention-a yellow box, resembling a deep-freeze unit, full of vacuum tubes, condensers, switches, wires. Walter applied to a patient's head the electrodes of an electroencephalograph (a machine that traces the peaks and valleys of the brain waves, helps to diagnose epilepsy, brain tumors, etc.). Then he attached his analyzing machine to the electroencephalograph...
...patient's brain waves traced their wavering lines on the electroencephalograph, Walter's machine swiftly interpreted the message, wrote its analysis on a tape. Said Walter: "The analysis . . . [reveals] . . . components 4, 7, 12 and 24 cycles per second." (Translation: brain waves were coming in prominently at those frequencies.) The fascinated delegates applauded warmly; in ten seconds the machine had reached a conclusion that would have taken them hours...
TWITCHING. Another peculiar disorder that causes uncontrollable twitching of the face muscles has defied cure. But surgeons have found that they can stop the twitching by blocking the facial nerve with alcohol. There are drawbacks. The patient must decide whether he prefers i) a twitching face, or 2) one permanently deadpan (i.e., paralyzed...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington, who has worked in the Maya country for 40 years, is the man who discovered some of its most famous monuments and directed Carnegie's elaborate restorations in Yucatan. Even he cannot unravel all the tangles of the Maya past, but this patient, expert, profusely illustrated book is by far the best general survey of the mystery as a whole: who were the ancient Maya, how did their civilization arise, why did it fall...