Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SPRAINS. For a sprained ankle, the painful area is anesthetized and the patient walks as soon as he can; exercise tends to speed the cure (patients can walk normally in two weeks or less). Drawback: the daily injections are painful...
BROKEN BONES. In simple fractures of the ribs, collarbone and some other bones, anesthesia of the neighboring area with novocaine is often the only treatment needed. The bones heal almost painlessly without splints, bandages or much interference with the patient's normal activity...
CAUSALGIA. This mysterious ailment, resulting from wounds near a nerve or blood vessel, causes excruciating, burning pains. In "major" causalgia, the patient is completely disabled, screams with pain at a touch or a sudden noise. In "minor" causalgia, the patient, months after a minor cut or infection has healed, may suffer severe pains without visible cause. Nerve block with novocaine or alcohol gives quick relief...
After ten days of Christian conference and patient protocol at Johnstown, Pa., 700 delegates from two churches last week went home as delegates from one. The United Brethren and the Evangelical Church had joined to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church-13th largest Protestant denomination...
...Lolli's hangover treatment usually begins with sedatives, vitamins, a warm bath (to quiet the patient and help him sleep). The chief ingredient is psychotherapy, which starts almost at once, while the patient is most susceptible. First step: to relieve him of certain common misconceptions about his condition...