Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than air pressure and air will not enter a vein unless it is forced in. The only thing that happens when a glucose bottle runs dry is that some of the glucose remains in the tubing. I offer this correction so that we won't have to give treatment for hysteria along with our glucose infusions...
...some, this would be difficult if they had the usual plastic tubes permanently implanted in their arms, with the ends exposed for hooking up to the machine. Avram uses instead a technique of joining an artery and vein inside the forearm, which causes the veins to enlarge. For each treatment, one needle is inserted near the site of this internal shunt to withdraw blood, and another higher up to return it. Thanks to this refinement, two Brooklyn patients are working as longshoremen, with little added risk of infection. Another is a garage mechanic...
...just God, but belief itself seems to be dying, suggests Nourissier: there is a miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...
...This novella, a study of a Negro girl's mind as told through her speech rhythms, appeared in 1909 and was one of the earliest and best of Gertrude Stein's countless experiments. Richard Wright called it "the first long serious treatment of Negro life in the United States...
...Algiers Motel incident is one of unique significance on the current American racial battleground. It deserves a better treatment than this book gives it. Hopefully it will get it sometime soon...