Word: pital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those 30 pills included antacids and vitamins and, more important, digitalis to strengthen the action of his new heart and two drugs to suppress the immune mechanism by which Blaiberg's body might reject the graft: azathioprine (Imuran) and the hormone prednisone. The doctors at Groote Schuur Hos pital were cautiously reducing the doses of immunosuppressives-his moonfaced appearance was a sign of cortisonism-and they hoped soon to be able to cut down his checkup visits to one a week. Blaiberg was writing a diary for daily newspaper syndication, and his wife Eileen, fresh from a crash course...
...routine call for the Beacon Ambulance Service of Fort Lauderdale. No sirens, no red lights, just an old man dead on arrival at the Florida hos pital. The autopsy revealed "peritonitis, secondary to acute gangrenous appendicitis, ruptured." Only an uncommonly tough character could have endured such pain so long and without any relief through drugs or antibiotics. Indeed, the manner of Joe Martin's departure from life was entirely consistent with the way in which he had always conducted it. The former Republican Speaker of the House, dead last week at the age of 83, had never had much...
...learned nothing," he said. "There is no area of equipment or research or in strumentation that comes close to that in the United States. I saw no hospital or institute as well equipped as any hos pital or institute...
...London's Central Middlesex Hos pital he gave carbenoxolone (Biogas-trone) to outpatients who had severe gastric ulcers. When more than two-thirds of them showed substantial healing of their ulcers on their X rays, Dr. Doll was still doubtful. It was all a mistake, he decided, or "a statistical sport." He spent more wearisome months repeating the test on another batch of patients-and he got the same results. There was, he concluded, something to licorice extract after...
...gravest crisis of all was the first. No Vice President be fore him ever witnessed the assassination of a President; none ever had the presidency thrust upon him in such brutal circumstances. Johnson was shocked and staggered. But even as he sat in an anteroom of Parkland Memorial Hos pital in Texas, he took full command of himself and of the office for which he had been honing his talents all his life...