Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...medicine's learned men once knew, or thought they knew, was that cancer is not infectious. Therefore, no "infectious agent" could be involved in its origin. Then a young (31) researcher just starting in at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to work on a sick Plymouth Rock hen. He took material from a tumor on the bird's breast, ground it ultrafine to smash the very cells, filtered the stuff through silica so that not even a broken cell could pass, and injected the liquid into healthy chickens. They soon developed cancers...
Throughout history, patients have been made sick, and some have been killed, by the medicines they took. But these were incidental or (as doctors call them) "side" effects. Relatively uncommon, such cases had to be weighed against the usefulness of the drug for the majority. Now, with chemical laboratories brewing up ever more potent drugs, more and more diseases are directly caused by drugs. Unlike most old-fashioned side effects, they do not necessarily disappear obligingly when medication is stopped. In Postgraduate Medicine, the University of Kansas' Dr. Jesse D. Rising lists an alarming catalogue...
...long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
...interesting. I went for five months. Finally, I told him I was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. That's when he said, 'I can't put you away, but you should go away.' " Then Johnny adds solemnly: "Who's to say who's sick? If you're not sick, you're a bore...
...City's always been good to me," he says. "I was on one of the regular trucks up until a few years ago. Now I can't manage that, so I'm out here. I like it. Steady pay, car to drive, couple of weeks vacation, fifteen days sick leave every year. I was in the Veteran's Hospital once for a month. I got paid every day." He turns to answer a question...