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...sensational new drip treatment which enables patients to assimilate massive doses of arsenicals a drop at a time through their veins (TIME, April 22) provides a quick cure of early syphilis in some cases. But a patient must cooperate by staying in a hospital five days. Doctors have long wanted a syphilis treatment which could be taken (according to their instructions) by mouth, at home. Now they have...
Socio-psychologist Shea suggested a complicated cure. Since hillbillies do not like recreations foisted on them by outside do-gooders, he would persuade community leaders to build their own recreation centres, with movies, dancing, shooting ranges, horseshoe-pitching grounds, pine sticks for whittling, brass cuspidors...
Chlorophyll's most spectacular success was in the relief of sinus infections and common colds. In more than 1,000 cases treated at Temple University Hospital by Drs. Robert Ferguson Ridpath and Thomas Carroll Davis, there was "not a single case recorded in which either improvement or cure . . . [did] not take place." Patients with mild colds snuffled chlorophyll nose drops once a day. Those with severe sinus infections wore chlorophyll packs or had large amounts of chlorophyll pumped up their noses once every other day for periods as long as several months...
Last week the Council issued Volume I, No. 1 of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. A compendium of scientific fact and fancy, the Journal offered no clear-cut conclusions on the cause & cure of alcoholism, left the lay reader with the sobering impression that a man staggering down the street is a dark scientific mystery...
...under a fierce grilling on mythology, ornithology, spelling, music, breeds of dogs, the Chicago prodigies left listeners awed with the scope of their learning, a trifle doubtful that the program was entirely unrehearsed. Snorted Variety: "If Alka-Seltzer is as remarkable for a hangover as these smarties, then the cure-all of the century comes in a long glass tube." Last week once again the Quiz Kids went through their paces, sounded just as knowing as they had before...