Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through being fooled with this case," he said, "and if you don't like it you can lump it. I've heard so much of this I'm sick...
Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...
Doctors have tried, but over the years they have found nothing that is sure comfort to people who get sick riding on ships, planes, streetcars or camels. They have given advice (eat, don't eat, lie down, move around, wear an abdominal belt, keep your eye on the horizon). They have also suggested such medicines as Atropine (which tones down intestinal activity, believed to be a factor in nausea), Prostigmin (which keeps the stomach working in the right direction), and sedatives. Nothing worked well enough...
...crossing was "extremely rough." One group of G.I.s got one capsule (100 milligrams) as the ship left New York, another six hours later, and then one before each meal and at bedtime; only two complained of dizziness, none of nausea. After the drug was stopped, 30% of them got sick. As a check to see if mental suggestion might be working the cure, a group of 123 believed that they were getting the new remedy, but actually got sugar capsules. In this group, 35 became good & sick; 'all but one recovered when they got Dramamine...
...insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that great patent-medicine man . . . apparently is grimly determined to bring socialized medicine from sick Europe to healthy America...