Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Committee for Education on Alcoholism announced plans to place fund-raising coin boxes in Manhattan saloons. Campaign slogan: "You Can Drink. Help the Sick Alcoholic Who Can't-Al-coholism Is a Disease...
During the last two years, Dr. Huggins and associates have tested the blood of 300 people, both sick and apparently well. They heated samples of the blood after adding a chemical called iodoacetate. In the blood of healthy people the protein (serum albumin) clotted much more readily than protein in the blood of people who had cancer, tuberculosis, various severe infections, such as kidney diseases. Where tests were positive, other diseases could be readily ruled out, and a search for the location of cancer could continue by more complicated methods. Study of the reasons why the blood protein of cancer...
...experts, who have seen tests for cancer come & go, argued about the value of the Huggins test. Some said it had yet to be proved. Others said that even if it were proved, it would merely screen the sick from the well, and could not be called a diagnostic test for cancer...
...Stillman is an institution devoted to the elimination of sleep. The daily routine starts at 6:30 a.m., when the sick student, comfortably clad in a pair of T-shaped cloth objects distinguishable only by a drawstring through the top of one, finds the pleasant mouth of the nurse pressed close to his ear. She is quietly calling his name. Outside to the east, the sky is still graying, but this does not bother the efficient nurse. She likes to Get Things Done. She takes to paticut's temperature with a wet mouth thermometer. He goes back to sleep...
...first glance, the story of a 17th century priest who spent the last 43 years of his life working tirelessly for the poor, the sick, and the aged would seem to be unattractive raw material for a motion picture. "Monsieur Vincent" does fail to escape the difficulties imposed upon it by the story--it has few dramatic moments and no plot; it "preaches," to a degree. But the total effect of this picture is one of strength and simplicity and unquenchable sincerity. Somehow--the reasons cannot be ticked off "one, two, three"--Viscount de la Grandiere, the producer, and Maurice...