Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stethoscope scientists swarmed to Portland, Ore., last week to attend the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a large proportion of pulmonary patients are public charges and every relapse doubles the original cost of care. The "cure to end the cure" costs comparatively little and has far reaching benevolent effects, according to figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...surgery Anatomist Kappers reminisced, "It is even probable that the trephine holes found in prehistoric skulls 50,000 years old were made for curative purposes. A short time ago the aborigines of some Pacific islands still exercised a similar practice, making holes in their skulls with sharp shells to cure chronic headaches." He mentioned briefly his own theory of neurobiotaxis which considers the brain as a functioning organ and attempts to explain its complexities in terms of work. This done, Anatomist Kappers eulogized U. S. neurologists and neurosurgeons for their advance in the treatment of tumours and abscesses...
...Albee believed he could ameliorate if not cure the Heath case of arthritis. Plan: To open up the knee and hip joints and scrape away the freak bone formation; to line the knee joints to prevent fraction with fat and connective tissue from the thighs; to replace the excised, but normal, bones and skin. That is what...
...solid flesh to accompany the more nebulous haze of distinction lent by them, the larger part are a direct result of war-time and early post-war idealism. In those days of friendship and hatred, hope and vindictiveness, the idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter awards are less completely educational in purpose than the earlier, they...
...rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding, it was also a grief without inhibition, and this produced a great pain . . . the paternal heart of the professor was lacerated by this misery, by the humiliating terrors of this passion, without rights and without cure." But the "night of a child establishes so broad and deep an abyss between one day and the next" that in the morning Lorie's grief was quite forgotten...