Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physiotherapists, special occupational ailments have become prevalent among those technicians. They must accompany patients in warm pools. Warm water makes them lose a pound of sweat during a two-to-three hour treatment. It also lowers their blood pressure. Chlorine, essential to sterilize the pools in which the sick bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop over to give treatments and this often develops backaches. To avoid backaches and skin troubles, smart hydrotherapists...
Next morning the world learned for the first time that John Pierpont Morgan was a sick man. Two weeks before he had suffered a mild heart attack and a severe attack of neuritis while visiting his late wife's sister, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, whose home is near Prides Crossing. Dr. George Parkham Denny, Bostor internist, had pulled Mr. Morgan through the heart attack, had started him toward recovery from the neuritis which had so weakened the muscles of his legs that they had to be spared the weight of his 200 pounds...
...Trends toward the organization of large medical and health centres, sickness insurance and possibly state medicine," observed Isabel Maitland Stewart, Columbia University's professor of nursing education, "probably mean fewer free-lance nurses and more organizations in groups, fewer de luxe nurses catering to the wealthy and more serving the needs of the common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate...
...duly licensed practitioner of medicine in the State of New York. I am a student of disease processes with the desire and interest of trying to help sick people and I do not like to see distorted and untrue accounts of myself in public print...
...Mark's boys were known to be stricken, eight of them after they were removed from school. All are suspected of having taken an unseasonable swim, like paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt, in chilly water. Four of the seventeen showed some degree of paralysis. How many other children were taken sick last week in other schools and homes where public inquisitiveness pried less sharply, will not be known for about a month when medical reports will have traveled to Washington. Enough was known last week for U. S. Public Health Service men to mark the St. Mark's epidemic down...