Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigators are trying to cure tuberculosis by introducing ultraviolet light to infected body cavities. The artificial sunlight might kill the germs and heal the tissues if it could shine on them. A problem has been how to build a light producer small enough and cool enough to get into the cavities. Last year Drs. John Roberts Caulk & Frank Henry Ewerhardt of Washington University, St. Louis, successfully entered a tuberculous bladder, alleviated it with irradiation. They used a cold quartz generator of ultraviolet light...
...face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery. His psychopathic defense-"You are criminals because you want to be! I am one because I cannot help it!"-is about to fail when the police arrive. You do not see whether Society kills or tries to cure...
...damp day the garment emitted an atrocious odor. The retail merchant to whom she returned the dress, hat or fur has usually been nonplussed. . . . Fearful of losing trade, clothing manufacturers have hushed up the situation which causes this unpleasant phenomenon. Last week in Manhattan the story of cause & cure came to light...
...kindly but inefficient nuns. National medical journals, supplemented by the Spanish edition of the American Medical Association's Journal and by European journals, keep local practitioners in touch with current medical progress. The profession, however, does not seem sufficiently alert and disinterested to prevent the sale of quack cure-alls. Latin America is the patent medicine man's happiest hunting ground...
...Aymar tracked him into Paris by a trail of murders. During the siege of the city (this was in 1870) and the nightmare of the Commune, Werewolf Bertrand fed at will. But by the time Aymar found him Bertrand had fallen in love and was making desperate efforts to cure himself. But he was too far gone; one night he was caught redhanded, red-mouthed. Aymar, by now thoroughly convinced that the Medieval Church was right, would have preferred to have Bertrand burned at the stake. In the up-to-date asylum the result, though slower, was the same...