Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia men are confident they have the remedy for rheumatism. But, proper scientists, they made their announcement cautiously: "We are making only modest claims as to the value of this new serum because it is still in the experimental stage, and too small a number of cures has been effected to evaluate properly its ultimate efficacy. We do not wish to arouse undue hopes in the minds of sufferers from acute rheumatic fever with the announcement of this report, realizing that there will be many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits...
...Rhodes Farm, Middlesex England, Sir Theodore Cook, chair man of the Field Distemper Committee stated tentatively that ; serum had been devised to cure dogs of distemper...
...Athens, Greece, 300 years B. C., a woman suffered as did Mr. Phillips. Ancient doctors could not cure her. So she had a five-inch image of herself, with all her grotesque deformities, made in terra cotta to show the gods what had become of her and to supplicate their pity. In 1914 the figure was dug up at Athens...
...make is a low-pitched howl followed by an irregular series of hoarse barks. It is the weirdest, most pleading whine of all dogdom. And when men hear it, they chase the dog with sticks and stones-mad dog! Once hydrophobia definitely develops, it is impossible to cure it, whether in dog, rabbit, cow or man. No human with a definitely developed case of rabies has ever been known to be cured. He dies, actually, like a dog. The muscles of his throat are paralyzed. To eat or drink is crazing torture. He does not fear water. But he does...
Louis Pasteur (1822-95) originated the cure for incipient hydrophobia in humans. He had confirmed positively that germs cause disease and that some might be killed by heat. This is the principle upon which milk is pasteurized, an important point. But of far greater importance in medicine is another fact that Louis Pasteur verified - many diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this...