bedfast

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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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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was 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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He has been bedfast for a long time.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration