Word: cured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
Young Dr. Konrad E. Birkhaug smiled modestly last week in his biological laboratory of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He had succeeded in developing a cure for erysipelas...
...tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave...
...Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...outside the parlor door while his father read stories to his mother. This was in Kent in the '80s. At school he used to tell stories to his mates that would last weeks, months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney...