Fluoride and Optic Neuritis
1964; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 5414 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.2.5414.945-c
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Facial Trauma and Fracture Management
ResumoBmMHRIT 945 some real fresh air in the luxuriant grounds -even to go shopping in the nearby town.Old-fashioned visitors, bearing their pre- mortuary flowers, will be nonplussed to find their loved ones playing gin-rummy in the day-room instead of lying safely tucked up, wan and hush-voiced, in beds of sickness.Within less than a fortnight most patients will decide they are whole again, and will discharge themselves as fit to get on with the business of living.There will be no need, moreover, for expensive convalescent and rehabilitation units, except for those comparatively rare cases left with some per- manent disability which has to be circum- vented.Illnesses, operations, physicians, and surgeons (it may be regretted) will have lost their mystique, their prestige, and their glamour.A stay in hospital will have come to be regarded as a slightly discreditable inci- dent, like a visit to the dentist, instead of- as now-a sacred ritual comparable to the lengthy Arapesh initiation ceremony.'Mind you, there is another school of thought which predicts that by A.D. 2014 a dental extraction will involve 14 days' bed- rest in a vitiated sleepless atmosphere, two weeks' convalescence, six weeks' sick benefit, and, of course, out-patient follow-up for six months.This may be true: indeed, such may be the present trend; but my bet is that in a further 50 years the pendulum will have swung the other way.My way.Any takers ?-I am, etc.,
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