Word: cured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Judiciary Committee last week sat down to see what it could do about labor disputes in defense industries. Before the committee were nine bills, offered by brother Congressmen as cure-alls...
Although some of them drool like idiots, spastic children are usually of normal intelligence. Neither medicine nor surgery can cure them. Chief hope for them is to train the healthy fibres of the brain to take over the functions of injured sections. Shining example of such a self-helped spastic is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson- of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Son of Swedish immigrants, iron-willed Dr. Carlson worked his way through the University of Minnesota and Princeton. A group of friends sent him to Yale Medical School. He has started a dozen schools for spastics all over...
...this solemn drama by one of Dublin's Abbey Theatre playwrights, an ardent young Irish Catholic comes home paralyzed after fighting for Franco. One night a bouquet of flowers is mysteriously moved from his bedroom shrine to his bed, and the next morning he is suddenly well. The cure is hailed as a miracle. Thereupon the young man decides to renounce his wife for the priesthood, and she agrees to take the vow of chastity which will allow him to do it, even though she has for some time desired his anticlerical brother...
...enormous practice, he was hated by other Roman doctors. Galen believed that the body was a perfect machine, dominated by the soul, set in motion by God. "Galen," said Dr. Castiglioni, "knows everything, has an answer for everything; he confidently pictures the origin of all diseases and outlines their cure." He perpetuated "fundamental errors," and "produced a long arrest in medical evolution." Yet he "recognized seven of the twelve pairs of cerebral nerves . . . and knew most of the gross structures of the brain as we know them today...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Francis Warren Pershing, a son, their first; in Manhattan. Hearing the news as he was taking the cure at Hot Springs, lusty old General John J. Pershing, straight as a ramrod at 80. chortled: "I'm very happy to be a grandfather...