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Drugs taken by mouth for arthritis are somewhat more efficacious because some of them allay pain, but none "is a cure for arthritis because there are a thousand causes of the disease and each cause requires separate treatment." Continuing his efforts to make vice look ridiculous, Dr. Mayers declared that "of 100 cases of sickness 80 will recover naturally; eight will die in any event, and only in twelve cases can the doctor be of any assistance." He made not a few practitioners in the audience look ridiculous when he concluded: "There is plenty of arthritis that is cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ridicule v. Vice | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...events of Saturday should allay any doubts as to the interest of the students in the university's most popular sport. Any speculation as to whether the playing of the team was improved by the cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TURNING OF THE TIDE | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Facial Neuralgia ranks close to angina pectoris as a racking pain. Cause of such neuralgia has never been ascertained. Usually some obscure infection is suspected. The pain may last for years, or it may return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapists | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Ohio State University, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister jointly conducted Holy Week services designed to allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Teachers' Oath Bill was yesterday's all-star array of talent at the legislative hearing. Harvard should be proud of the logical and sincere defense of academic freedom made by President Conant, who exchanged thrusts with the embattled farmers of Beacon Hill with enough force and conviction to allay any fears that the heads of the American universities might he shirking their proper intellectual leadership in the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODE TO LIBERTY | 3/6/1936 | See Source »

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