bedfast
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He first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees.
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The scientists, who have been going aboard each morning since the test started on Jan. 19, took blood samples from the bedfast half of the crew.
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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.
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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.
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Why should not the case of poor bedfast wretches in cap and gown, and pale faces, meet with as much consideration as that of your clodpole in scarlet and an 'Albert hat?'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
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