Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miami Contractor Edwin Montholeum Green began to cough up blood around Christmas 1955. On Feb. 1, 1956, he was diagnosed as having lung cancer, too far advanced to be removed by surgery. Green died early in 1958, soon after he had given a deposition to Lawrence V. Hastings, a physician and attorney...
...there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
...world's poor, poverty is real, and so omnipresent that they can think of nothing else. But there are also a few oddballs around who suffer from "imaginary poverty," Dr. Archibald Beatson observes in the British Medical Journal. Theirs is a true psychosis, says the Worthing (Sussex) physician, because it includes two delusions: 1) that they cannot afford necessities, when in fact they have plenty of money for luxuries, and 2) that "life on earth will continue indefinitely." so they must not touch their capital "for fear of compromising the security of this interminable future." This emotional disorder...
Lennox ended a four-year career as a medical missionary in Peking, returned to the U.S. to study the disease, about which he found "an element of fear and hopelessness that was shocking." By 1951 the girl had herself become a top physician in the fight on epilepsy, and Dr. Lennox could report that "with new methods and medicines, three-fourths of the sufferers can be relieved of three-fourths of their seizures, and many are completely relieved." Died. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, 80, one of the original boss ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard...
...Heat Stroke. The body temperature soars to 106° or higher; sweating stops and leaves the skin hot, dry and flushed. Warning signs include fever, headache, restlessness, thirst, and absence of sweating. Treatment is drastic, and the physician must not leave it to the nurses. Most effective is to put the patient in an ice bath until the rectal temperature drops to 101°. If shock sets in, the patient will need intravenous fluids, plasma and drugs to boost the blood pressure. Mortality ranges from...