Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past a multitude whose cheers celebrated the extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty...
...process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either at the moment, or after the hypnosis is over and forgotten, according to the commands of the operator. The cure of alcoholics and drug addicts is effected by replacing the desire for drink or drugs with a desire for health. Such a sermon would not be listened to under ordinary circumstance ; during hypnosis the ideas not only sink in but take a firm hold and reappear at the appointed time...
...affected area and lightly sears the tissues underneath. The skin is then replaced in such a way as to allow drainage of pus and ultimate healing, thereby avoiding the scars which were the landmarks of former cauterization. The burning produces a high fever, which in turn produces a cure, according to the hundreds of cases reported by Dr. Bier...
Malarial fever has been used for many years in the U. S. and Europe in an attempt to cure general paresis. Many of the paretics inoculated with malaria have improved, but since there are occasional spontaneous but temporary improvements in this disease, it is still a little early to tell just what part the malaria has played. The outlook seems most favorable however...
Last week the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association announced that a positive cure for leprosy had been effected. Hydnocarpus oil is the new remedy. For ten concentrated years scientists have been working to extract an oil from the dried fruit of the hydnocarpus tree that could safely be used in the fight against leprosy. The virtues of this oil have long been known, but its use was restricted because it blocked the veins and choked off the blood stream. Since bacillus leprae exists in the circulating blood as well as in the organs and tissues, a destructive agent that could...