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...complaints in which (extract of hemp) has been specifically recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage...
...only one patient an ailment that lent itself to treatment. Even if diseases could be easily detected in checkups, adds Dr. William Keith Morgan of West Virginia University's School of Medicine, "patients are probably better off not knowing they are going to die of Huntington's chorea or multiple sclerosis 15 or 20 years from...
...drug is also enabling doctors to take some tentative yet encouraging steps toward treating Huntington's chorea, a genetically-determined degenerative nerve disease that strikes its vic tims at about the age of 40 and kills them within 15 years. A group headed by Dr. Leslie Iverson, 36, of the British Medical Research Council's Division of Neurochemical Pharmacology, has been studying the chemical changes in brains of Huntington's victims. The team has found that victims of the disease have lower-than-normal quantities of the transmitter gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and occasionally-elevated amounts...
...about perfect-or "together," as the kids say -but Penn sees destruction all around. Ray and Alice, playing foster parents, bitch away at each other in rivalry for the affections of a reformed junkie named Shelly (Michael McClanatha). Woody lies dying in a Brooklyn hospital of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary affliction of the nervous system that Arlo may not escape. When Woody and Shelly die, there is a funeral of lingering sadness that symbolizes the passing of the whole way of life...
Died. Woody Guthrie, 55, balladeer and U.S. folk music's lead guitar for two decades; after a 13-year illness (Huntington's chorea, a rare disease of the nervous system); in Manhattan. "This train is bound for glory," sang Woody, and so was his musical cast-Dust bowl farmers seeking Pastures of Plenty, the spunky Union Maid who defied "goons and ginks and company finks," fast-living Jackhammer John, everyone traveling a hard road, but one that provided hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with...