Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
...painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...
...flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
...even dinosaurs suffered from it 200,000,000 years ago. Arthritis has always bedeviled the human race. The great thermal baths built by the Romans are monuments to the aching bones of the middle-aged Romans who had it. Today, in the U.S., the 6,850,000 people with swollen arthritic joints far outnumber the sufferers from any other chronic disease (including heart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure). Arthritis causes more days lost from work than industrial accidents, or any disease except nervous and mental ailments...
Gold in the Veins. The main advance is in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The whole body, not just the swollen joints, is treated. The principal idea is rest. "Many patients state that all they do is rest [but] examination . . . will frequently show that they are tense and that their muscles are in more or less constant spasm." Rest relaxes this spasm...