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Febrile patient, picking at the bed covers
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ominous prognosis -- seen in delirium
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       *[footnote 3] The book was omitted from the index.
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  • A male patient with hypoglycemia due to an insulinoma got in trouble with the nurses because they interpreted his wandering hands as molestation, when in fact they were a result of hypoglycemia. [101]
  • "With severely ill men over 75 years of age who are hospitalized, the absence of one or both hands on the genitals is a grave prognostic sign." [102]
  • Medical school dropout James Joyce described a terminally ill person with crocidismus. [103]
    Footnotes in Print Edition[Top] [Nav]
    (1) The Genuine Works of Hippocrates.
  Adams F (transl). Huntington, NY: Robert E. Krieger, 1972: Book of Prognostics, paragraph 4.
    (2) The neuropsychiatric effects of treatment with interleukin-2 and lymphokine-activated killer cells.
  Denicoff KD, Rubinow DR, et al.   Ann Intern Med 1987 Sep;107(3):293-300.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (3) History of Medicine. 4th ed.
  Garrison FH. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1929: 94-95, 97.   Amazon.com
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    101.Nurses annoyed by pinching and nudging [letter; comment].
  Savas MC, Gullu IH.   Lancet 1996 Aug 31;348(9027):626.  Pubmed  Similars
    102.A Little Book of Doctors' Rules.
  Meador CK. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 1992: 209.   Amazon.com
    103.Ulysses.
  Joyce J. New York: Random House/Vintage Books 1986: I.211.   Amazon.com
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