Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuously absent from all last week's super-functions in Washington was the fine, bearded figure of the U. S. Chief Justice. Stricken with a duodenal ulcer, Charles Evans Hughes, 77, lay in his bed at home, so sick that his friends regretfully concluded he would never again take his place upon the Supreme Bench...
Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight...
...patient had been addicted [to narcotics] before he came to me, mainly because he was suffering from three chronic ailments. . . . Although Fred Barrick was an addict he was a chronic, continually sick man; however, when relieved [by morphine] he was of phenomenally acute, alert, clear and competent mentality. . . . I believe I am right and loyal to my profession in relieving him or anyone . . . if thereby I can save him to some useful purpose. . . . The extraordinary tolerance the man had for gluttonous dosage [often 20 grains a day] was . . . so marvelous that his case deserves my future recording...
After these symptoms had developed, Dr. Patton gave each of the sick dogs a small injection of pure vitamin B1 "The effect," he reported, "was . . . spectacular. [The injection] transformed a racing, howling maniac, or one in appalling convulsions, frothing at the mouth and screeching piteously, into a quiet though nervous animal within four hours, and in 48 hours into a normal, healthy, playful puppy...
...reckoning in a U. S. district court as a tax-dodger this week came Kansas City, Mo.'s sick Boss Tom Pendergast. His power to make Missouri Governors and U. S. Senators had failed to unmake charges that he evaded Federal income taxes on $443,550, allegedly took $315,000 of that sum in slush from insurance companies (TIME, April...