Word: cured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials to show the people that she, too, knew how to make soap, cure meat, rear children. The Governor's University of Arkansas trustees had ousted Scholar Fulbright from the institution's presidency in 1941 for unannounced political reasons...
...gist of the gory story is that English physicians have been baffled in attempting to cure Lucy Seward. Played by Claire Birsch, Vassar '44, she is being preyed upon by Dracula. A Dutch specialist, Professor Van Helsing, is called upon to pit his wits against the deadly vampire, who died 500 years ago and has lived on by sucking the blood of his victims...
Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
...Kenny Cure. The patients were placed flat on their backs on a firm mattress which did not quite reach to the footboard of the bed. Their feet, with heels and toes stretching beyond the mattress, were set squarely against the footboard (so that the children could exercise, without effort, the muscular reflexes used for standing up). Their arms were kept at their sides, their knees straight. No splints or casts were used. Hot packs, made of pieces of blankets wrung out of boiling water, were laid on each child's twitching limbs, changed every two hours-in serious cases...
These help to control the disease. But there is no practical cure for athlete's foot on the market. Often the infection will disappear of itself if left alone. Sometimes it will show up again from a new exposure. For the fungi are so widespread that to eradicate the disease it would be necessary, according to one doctor, "to sterilize the whole world...