Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...method is so simple that, in most cases, it can be carried out under a local anesthetic in the doctor's office. The patient is told to fix his gaze on a distant object. Then, while his eyelid is held open, the icy tip of the pencil-size probe is applied to every part of the diseased section for seven seconds at a time. The area is thawed each time with a salt solution to unstick the probe and eye, which freeze together after the fashion of a finger on an ice tray. After the thaw, the entire procedure...
...killed outright by the cold, and the interferon is able to stop the spread of whatever remains, eventually allowing it all to be killed. "The response to cryotherapy is so uniformly satisfactory," says Dr. Bellows, "that in unresponsive cases the physician should question the diagnosis and re-examine the patient...
...tend to be both puritan and morbidly erotic. They are emotional-at feasts or in war-to the point of delirium. They carry on ancient forms of politeness and hospitality, which, Princeton Scholar Morroe Berger suggests, help to control the most violent impulses of aggression. Yet they are also patient to the point of crippling fatalism, a trait reflected in the constant phrases, inshallah (if God wills it), malesh (it does not matter), and bukra (tomorrow). Above all, what they have in common is a language. "An Arab is anyone whose mother tongue is Arabic," says Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Among the condemned were Actor Walther Bethke (1943) and the Rev. Josef Muller (1944), who were executed for cracking private jokes about Hitler. A country doctor was sentenced to death simply for telling a pregnant patient that she was courageous to have a baby in the fifth year of the war-an aspersion, as the court saw it, on Nazi chances of victory. When Lawyer Reinhart Freiherr von Godin wrote a letter consoling the sister of a friend condemned by the court, Von Godin too was arrested and executed for "slandering the people and the Reich...
Under Miller's patient probing, any number of dread disorders may be identified. The anxiety syndrome and dominance frustration affect a dog who thinks that its master is too unmanly to protect the home; the animal feels that it must boss the household, and so attacks anybody who comes around. The secretary syndrome arises when the master works late at the office; the dog becomes tense and irritable because its master is not at home on time. In barrier frustration, the dog gets infuriated because it cannot break its lesh. Psychosexual misorientation is something esle...