Word: cured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Dickinson Duffield (Prudential Life Insurance Co.)-"It's difficult for Congress alone to cure things. . . . Modification of debtor-creditor contracts often are needed and justified but to destroy the obligations attaching to such contracts will weaken the entire basis of our system. A 70? dollar wouldn't be so bad if businessmen were sure that it would be maintained as a 70? dollar...
...Cure. Radio waves and hot air are curing arthritis, syphilis, gonococcal infections and certain blood-vessel diseases of the hands and feet at Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital. The patient lies in an insulated chamber, his head, however, protruding. In the chamber's side walls are large condenser plates which, like the aerials of radio systems, send a 30-metre high frequency wave through the patient.* In 30 minutes his temperature rises to 105° or 106° F. He sweats, germs within him begin to die, injured tissues and nerves begin to heal. Profuse sweating weakens...
...apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R- F-, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good...
...fact that the magic word technocracy no longer possesses that extra something--front page allurement--the inventive genius of the American mind conceives another startling idea for doctoring the ills of the stricken world. "Biocracy" is the name for it, and it is a rival to the technocratic cure...
...eagerness with which such cure-alls are seized by the American public gives a very good indication of the general feeling of despondency and gloom caused by the depression. The average American is willing to grasp at a straw and to cling tenaciously until the last vestige of hope is withdrawn. It is a bad sign of the times. After Biocracy what? Cornell Daily...