Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physician faced with a case of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, the eye infection now circulating in the U.S., especially among war workers (TIME, Dec. 28), has had to let the disease run its unhurried course for one to eight weeks. All he could do was try to make his patient as comfortable as possible; there was no known cure for "shipworker...
...senior event, 18-year-old Arthur Vaughn Jr., son of a Philadelphia Main Line physician and brother of ex-Champion Jane Vaughn Sullivan, nosed out St. Paul's Arthur Preusch, Midwest champion...
...physicians did not reveal any bedside secrets. Churchill's private physician, soothing, witty Sir Charles Wilson, visited his patient twice a day. When the Prime-Ministerial temperature rose, he called in Pulmonary Specialist Dr. Geoffrey Marshall and Haematologist Dr. Lionel Whitby, who knows sulpha drugs by their middle names...
...washed. He was massaged twice daily, had mud packs placed on his head. He was given occasional enemas. At the age of 74, in a land where life expectancy is only 27, Gandhi after twelve days of his intended 21-day fast was sinking rapidly. Said an Indian physician, Dr. B. C. Roy: "Only a miracle" could see him through. During the first days he took only citrus juice and water. Midway through his ordeal the act of drinking water exhausted him. A panel of nine doctors announced that Gandhi's "uremic condition deepens and if his fast...
...around after two days in a Dallas hospital was Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. An attending physician said he had suffered "complete nervous collapse." Murphy, en route to visit his ailing brother Lieut. Commander George in San Francisco, said "I never felt better," called his own illness "highly overemphasized...