Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visits to Rhodesian and South African jamborees, Chief Boy Scout Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron Baden-Powell, 80, declared: "It is either going to kill or cure me. I don't mind which it is, so long as I can carry through my work...
...Center, director of New York University's reading clinic, reported: 1) what constitutes bad reading habits, 2) how they may be corrected. Dr. Center, 60, who is co-chairman of the English department in New York City's Theodore Roosevelt High School, started three years ago to cure bad habits of the 60% of students who came to the school below par in reading. So successful were these remedial classes that they were extended to other high schools and last year the N. Y. U. clinic was opened for handicapped adults as well as youngsters...
Adult women resist infection by gonococci because their sex membranes are relatively impervious. Children have very little such protection. Germs work into their tissues where germicidal douches cannot reach. In spite of treatment the disease may last as long as five years. The cure for vaginitis is only four years old. In January 1934, at Yale. Dr. Robert Lewis took a hint from Dr. Edgar Allen, who found that female sex hormones toughened the vaginal mucosa of monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks...
...Young, with the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Archibald Campbell Colston, transformed one pseudohermaphrodite by grafting a pair of testicles taken from a healthy 18-year-old Maryland convict a few minutes after he was hanged. The cure lasted for three years, when the patient lost his self-confidence, regained his effeminate obesity, disappeared...
Said John Sloan four years ago: "Painting . . . has been getting sicker and sicker for over 100 years. The ultra moderns will cure it." Signs of such a cure were evident in devices of composition which Mervin Jules has apparently borrowed from trick photography and the fantastic school, used for his own purposes...