Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complaints, Mayo's Dr. Colum A. Gorman and his colleagues found that the sensation was often felt deep inside the leg; in nearly all cases, it was between ankle and knee, but in a few it involved the thighs and feet. The only diagnosis, the doctors concluded, was "restless legs." A 70-year-old priest was unique in also having "restless hands...
Mayo's Neurologist Peter J. Dyck checked the patients for possible nerve disorders; none were significant. The researchers found, as they expected, that most of the restless-leg patients were anxious or depressed, and most of them had more severe episodes at times of stress. Men and women are likely to be affected at any age, and it may be that as much as 5% of the population suffers occasional touches of the disorder, though not severe enough to send the sufferers to a doctor...
...drug or other treatment seems to have any effect, and doctors are no nearer to finding a cause or cure for restless legs than they were three centuries ago when the symptom was first reported by English Physician Thomas Willis.* The only practical prescription remains unchanged: wake up and walk...
...labor is in a restless mood, and that mood was made obvious last week to millions of Americans...
...decision seems to be that Illia's "government of reconciliation" is not enough for Argentina's restless citizens. Since taking office 17 months ago, Illia has allowed the debts, wages, prices and everything else to soar, while hoping that the basically rich wheat-and-beef economy would somehow work itself out of trouble. It has not, and many Argentines, searching for leadership, yearn for the days when El Lider was in power...