Word: cured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queens Hospital has been a proving ground for new treatments. Says Dr. Larsen: "The literature and the drug houses often exploit something that eventually proves to be worthless. We were able to publish the first adverse report in America on the uselessness of mercurochrome as a specific cure for streptococcus infections...
Javelin throw--Won by Nardone (R.I.), 127 ft., 10 1/2 in.; second, Cure (R.I.), 158 ft., 7 1.8 in.; third, Alberge...
...United States Rubber Co. calls its new extrusion method "the most important improvement in rubber processing in many years." Developed for tank treads, the process squirts rubber through tiny holes into molds under high pressure which raises the temperature almost to the vulcanization point, gives a more uniform cure. Postwar promises include rubber heels of higher quality from less rubber...
...keratoconjunctivitis, the eye infection now circulating in the U.S., especially among war workers (TIME, Dec. 28), has had to let the disease run its unhurried course for one to eight weeks. All he could do was try to make his patient as comfortable as possible; there was no known cure for "shipworker...
...cholera is the most destructive. Symptoms are fever, loss of appetite, weakness (hog looks "lost in thought"), thirst. No cure is known, and pigs usually die within ten days. But cholera can be prevented by inoculating young pigs with anti-hog-cholera serum supplemented with a dose of the virus. Farmers should not put off immunization until cholera is reported near by: then it is too late...