Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early stages of polio, the doctors pointed out in the Journal of the American Medical Association, victims often complain of pain which keeps them rest less, fretful and unable to sleep well...
Their appetite improved, and they enjoyed their food. The majority stated that they were able to sleep comfortably for the first time since the illness began...
Muscle twitchings present in some of the patients receded." There was no evidence that the drug affected the polio virus in any way. But perhaps because the patients' resistance was not sapped so quickly by pain and loss of sleep, the acute phase of the illness appeared to be shortened...
...pain seemed to intensify to agony . . . Soon a drop of blood began to form at one of the foot wounds . . . Gradually the hands and the other wounds began to bleed . . . Toward 9 o'clock the flow of blood stopped, the pain seemed to go, and she appeared to sleep normally . . . On Saturday morning she appeared surprisingly fresh and youthful-looking, and in very good health...
...Sleep. The day was drizzly, so wet that groundkeepers at the Polo Grounds had to shovel sawdust around the mound to give Maglie some solid footing. He struggled with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...