Word: piker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters who cover San Francisco's City Hall consider Philadelphia's Councilman Charles Pommer a piker [TIME...
...sheets by picking the Derby one, two, three, and cinching it with pictures on the front page! Of course there might have been some question about what time of day to start that "clockwise" business, but I figure a guy could stay in coffee and cakes with nothing but piker bets to "show" as long as TIME was picking them...
...Piker & Cohn never put a D. T. patient in a straitjacket. They hog-tie him only when they lack enough robust nurses to gentle the patient...
...drunk and do depress his circulation. They never give morphine, because that drug increases pressure on the brain and brings on death. They reduce intracranial pressure by draining fluid through a puncture in the spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts...
Average time in the hospital for Piker & Cohn D. T. patients is 4.8 days...