Word: cured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widely touted "cure" for athlete's foot should not be sold to the public, announced the Food & Drug Administration. Reason: this particular mixture, composed of camphor and phenol (carbolic acid) "is capable of producing necrosis [gangrene] and is too dangerous for indiscriminate use." According to the Administration, phenol-camphor should be sold only on a physician's prescription, must be labeled POISON, and be plastered with warnings, instructions, first-aid directions in case of accident...
...highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...
Trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, caused by a parasite spread by ticks, bed bugs, pig flies. Commonest in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, the trypanosomes invade the lymph nodes, thyroid, heart muscles, bone marrow, etc., cause fever, heart disease, sometimes insanity. There is no effective cure...
...denies that farm incomes are low, or that farmers need relief. But no member of either house of Congress has yet acknowledged that the real heart of the farm problem is too many farmers, and that prices are a symptom, not a cause. Any permanent cure for the difficulty must by nature be a gradual process, not a temporary profitable panacea...
There is no cure for angina pectoris (heart attack), which afflicts hundreds of thousands in the U.S.. but its agonizing pains have been relieved in a number of cases by injections of testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone. So reported Dr. Leslie Hamm of Boston in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, in a review of his own work and that of Dr. Maurice Aaron Lesser...