Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palace and turned on his father, the king, with nothing more than sincerity and a mendicant's bowl. St. Francis of Assisi, who left a rich Italian merchant family to live in poverty among the birds and beasts, is another hero, along with Gandhi (for his patient nonviolence), Aldous Huxley (for his praise of hallucinogens in Doors of Perception), and J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbits (with their quirky gentleness and hairy toes...
...years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which leads to enlargement of the spleen), intestinal damage, bleeding from the esophagus, stunting of growth, anemia and blood in the urine. Though surgery to remove the spleen gives the patient some relief, it does not eliminate the flukes, which go right on laying eggs...
...Dose of Emetic. Now, Cornell University's Dr. B. H. Kean, a specialist in tropical medicine, and Surgeon Edward I. Goldsmith have devised a method to remove most of the flukes. The two reasoned that when a patient is cut open to have his spleen removed, he might as well be rid of the flukes at the same time. They designed a system of tubes to pipe the blood from the vein entering the patient's liver, pumping it through a filter, and returning it to a vein in the leg (see diagram). In order to lure...
Reporting to the A.M.A. on the results of the first 20 applications of the technique on schistosomiasis victims in Brazil, Dr. Kean said as many as 1,668 worms had been filtered from the blood of a single patient. The patients had been excreting thousands of eggs a day; after the operation, ten excreted no more eggs, suggesting that all the mated flukes had been filtered out of their systems, and seven others showed great improvement. Though it was developed specifically for the fluke Schistosoma mansoni, common in South America and Africa, Drs. Kean and Goldsmith believe the technique...
...minute quantity of a second substance that produced violent reactions. This second substance proved to be a large protein molecule, with part of the penicillin molecule attached. The protein can be removed in the final stages of manufacture, thus making injected penicillin much safer for the non-sensitized patient...