Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a typical day last week at the Veterans Administration's New York mental-hygiene clinic, which the VA thinks is the world's largest. Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals. Some 50 new patients turn up daily. One of 30 VA mental clinics recently set up throughout the U.S., it will soon be joined by 70 more...
...elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge. All told the clinic has 38 rooms, and 28 more are to be added...
...clinic is prepared to treat any emotional or nervous disorder from a simple headache to dementia praecox; it farms out no psychotic cases. It has classified some 370 different types of headaches and experimented with a variety of new treatments; one of the most successful, developed by Dr. Arnold Friedman, is a novocaine injection in the head, which relaxes tense muscles and paves the way for persuading the patient that his headaches may disappear if he stops worrying about them...
...course of his four days around the University, the Crimson football mentor held an informal pigskin clinic with five guest coaches, and concluded his whirlwind visit by watching an informal workout at Soldier's Field yesterday afternoon at which 40 gridiron aspirants were present...
Harlow's guests at the clinic, which was devoted to a study of football movies and a general discussion of post-war gridiron trends, included Bob Neyland, head coach of the Tennessee Vols; Jack Harding, who directed the Miami University eleven, Orange Bowl champions last fall; and two former Harlow players--now coaches--who learned their football when Dick tutored the Western Maryland club. They were Al Sadusky, now line coach under Skip Stahley at George Washington University, and George Ekaitis, who coaches the Washington College, Md., squad...