Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VATICAN CITY, Nov. 24--Pope Pius XII said today a doctor legitimately may halt artificial respiration for a dying patient in some cases if the patient's family requests...
...American Public Health Association was a doctor who has handed out more money for more medical research than any other man in the world-a total far greater than all the Rockefeller grants in this field. The doctor: Cassius James Van Slyke, 56, who has never practiced for any patient other than Uncle...
Main difficulty is that it takes the pineal glands of 15 steers to make one day's dose for one patient. With only small quantities available so far, Dr. Altschule estimates that it will take at least two years to get a firm verdict on the extract's value. Meanwhile, he is testing a preparation from the same substance to be taken by mouth, and chemists are hoping to synthesize it. Exactly why any substance from the pineal gland should have this effect is just as mysterious as oldtime speculation about the clairvoyant third...
...which the myopia had got worse, several in which it had decreased so that the lenses could be made weaker. Some of the improvement may have been due to pressure, which keeps the cornea from bulging farther. That cannot be the whole story, because pressure disappears when the patient stops wearing the lenses-as one or two have succeeded in doing. What the general explanation may be, Optometrist Morrison would not try to guess...
...heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence...