Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term...
...Many remedies were proposed. The dissolution of the Labor cabinet and the formation of the Coalition Cabinet was one of the attempts to cure the patient. But the disease developed so rapidly that even more drastic measures were necessary, and the recent and sudden decision to temporarily abandon the gold standard was the emergency operation performed...
...thing lacking is confidence in our financial institutions. For the life of me I don't see how you can cure this lack of confidence but, like the mumps, it must work itself out. Last week I asked a banker to loan me $6,000 to be applied on the building of a new home. The banker threw up his hands and said: 'Oh, Senator, we can't make any loans at present. While we are sound, we must remain in a liquid condition...
...appendix pain may pass away. But it is almost sure to return some day. There is no medicine to cure an infected appendix. It must be cut out. the sooner the better, agree most physicians and surgeons. Deaths are almost always due to delayed operations...
...Carlsbad the Walker reception was compared to that of Edward VII. Medical examiners found him "organically in good condition." He settled down to take the cure for two or three weeks, reduced his cigarets to two per day, cut out veal. It rained steadily. He stood the discipline for five days, then set out again on his gay travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with...