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President Clarence C. Little of the University of Maine and Dr. W. T. Bovie, Professor of Biophysics at Harvard Medical School, have discovered a cure for rickets. The cure consists of a violet ray treatment, wherein the subject is exposed to ultraviolet rays projected by a Cooper-Hewitt lamp through a fused quartz window. Chickens?a kind of fowl peculiarly susceptible to rickets?have been experimented upon with a success which definitely establishes the cure...
Rome in the springtime. Tito Beppi of the Teatro Paradiso seeks the aid of the specialist Gambella, to cure the fits of terrible anguish and tears that torment him. In the waiting room he meets Luigi Ravelli, the roisterer and squire of dames, who has come to be treated, not for tears, but uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta...
This is not a quotation from an archaic book on medicine. It is a theory put forward by Dr. W. H. Taliaferro of the University of Chicago, who has been experimenting with rat blood as a cure for sleeping sickness. "Rats are immune to sleeping sickness," says he. "There are evidences that they produce certain immune bodies in their blood which will have an important bearing on the eradication of the disease...
Some time ago, Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit announced that he had found a cure for cancer. He said at the same time that he had no intention of making his cure public. For this he was expelled from the American Medical Association. Now he promises, through Cancer, a publication of the American Association devoted to the Study and Cure of Cancer, to give the details of his method in a forthcoming article. His theory is that the disease is caused by a germ which can be killed by the action of a chemical antitoxin in the body. This...
...Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York, states that he has treated 78 cancerous cases with the Koch syrum. Said he: "Twelve cases are in the process of cure. Nineteen have died. Of those who died, it can be said that they were all in a class that presented the limits of lost vitality...