Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money in the nation on a per capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion we understand and accept the fact that, in the short space of one year, we cannot cure the chronic illness that beset us for a dozen years...
...nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would destroy the bacillus, cure its human victims. But black days were ahead. Despite the other bacteriological triumphs of this onetime country doctor, it saddened the rest of Robert Koch's life when his tuberculin not only failed to cure consumptives but killed a good many of them in the attempt...
...admitted that, as yet, they had had no effect, either preventive or curative, on guinea pigs and rabbits. But he did think that he was at least on the right track, urged other researchers to join him in the search for "the greatest prize in the world," a specific cure for tuberculosis...
Last week, when 318 signatures had been obtained, the women presented to Britain's General Medical Council a petition for the professional reinstatement of Dr. Burt-White. Cried Mrs. Pottesman, whom he had cured of a rare disease: "All those who have signed have been brought through dangerous illnesses by Dr. Burt-White. There are hundreds of women whom he alone could cure. It is our business to see that his services to womankind are not lost...
...appreciated by most physicians. President Herman X. Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health arranged for a nationwide radio broadcast to warn and instruct the country. Some authorities believe that one in every ten or 20 persons harbors dysentery parasites. The disease may recur long after an apparent cure. Applicants for food-handling jobs should be examined several times, required to keep themselves thoroughly clean. Those who have had the disease should be examined once a month for four months, every six months thereafter for the rest of their lives...