Word: cured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Hofmeyr is also part owner of the Forum, South Africa's only liberal weekly. Last week the Forum's editor and Hofmeyr's protege, John Patrick Cope, pricked open two of the Union's deepest sores, proposed a radical cure...
...Doctor. But after a while they were remedied. In 1933 many things had to be done to cure the patient internally. And they were done...
Wanted: A Mandate. Time & again total nationalization has been proposed as a cure for the ailing, often mismanaged industry. Prime Minister Winston Churchill has refused to accede without a people's mandate. That would require a general election...
Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...
Fashions in Surgery. Castration as a method for checking prostatic cancer is once more in fashion. It was abandoned in the '90s because it did not cure, revived in the '30s because many doctors believe the temporary relief it offers is worth while. The operation is often supplemented by continuing doses of female sex hormones. Many patients refuse the treatment...