Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrofula, in the middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk...
...Vice Admiral Sir Hugh J. Tweedie to the annual meeting last week of the Union Jack Club: "It may be that all of us in the services are going to see hard times. Most of the British fleet is now working overseas. There may be a cure for that. Adolf Hitler, like his predecessor, may see that our service is once more in home waters...
...School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case of Graves's Disease. But in all cases the eyes bulge. In extreme cases the eyes may pop out of their sockets...
While feeding maggots which surgeons use to cure infected wounds (TIME, Jan. 22, 1934), Dr. William Robinson, of the Government's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, remembered fetal urine and bruisewort, decided to learn whether the maggot vulneraries also did their good work by excreting allantoin into the wound. Surgeons theretofore knew that maggots ate diseased tissues. But they were uncertain of how maggots stimulated healing...
Rancidity Preventive. Now that they have learned how to prevent it, chemists revealed that bacon, potato chips, cakes, candy and similar foods become rancid if wrapped in ordinary transparent cellulose sheets. Cause: ultraviolet light which reaches the food through the transparent wrapper. Cure: tinting cellulose wrapping paper with a faint yellow dye which obstructs ultraviolet light...