Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the patients in Ward L have sore throats, aching muscles, headaches, fever, and nausea and temperatures have ranged reportedly as high as 105 degrees, according to a patient in the ward...
...Patient Seeds. Witchweed's way of life is one of the strangest in nature. The plants produce vast numbers of barely visible seeds, sometimes as many as half a million from a single plant. The seeds fall to the ground and mix with the soil, where they can lie for 20 years without losing vitality. A seed does not normally germinate until the rootlet of a suitable plant creeps close to it through the soil. Influenced by a mysterious substance that the root secretes, the seed wakes up. Out of it pokes a root that snakes through the soil...
...without help. Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair. The machine has safety features so that the patient will not be dropped in the event of short circuits. Worst consequence: patient could be left...
...Results. When they are satisfied that depatterning has gone on long enough, the psychiatrists withdraw the barbiturates gradually and cut the shock treatments to three a week. During a month of rehabilitation, a nurse or attendant helps the patient to reorient himself. After discharge there is intensive follow-up through doctors and social workers. By way of "maintenance treatment," the patient goes back to the hospital every week for shock therapy during the first month, and once a month for the next two years...
...lived by his wits in Nero's fat and frightened time. In contemporary terms, Moriarty seems even closer to a prison psychosis that is a variety of the Ganser Syndrome.* Its symptoms, as described by one psychiatrist, sound like a playback from Kerouac's novel: "The patient exaggerates his mood and his feelings: he 'lets himself go' and gets himself into a highly emotional state. He is uncooperative, refuses to answer questions or obey orders . . . At other times he will thrash about wildly. His talk may be disjointed and difficult to follow...