bedfast

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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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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient 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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Mother is bedfast with rheumatism," he said, "and it would do her a power of good if you would run in and see her sometime.

From The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan by Edholm, Lizette M.