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...urged to tell what is the matter, preferably to an Army psychiatrist, just behind the battle lines. The doctors do not let him get the idea that he will be pulled out of battle and sent for a good long rest. For doctors have found that the surest cure for such cases is fast treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spit It Out, Soldier | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Care and Cure. On the highly controversial subject of treatment with drugs and surgery, Dr. Page has liberal views. He believes that it often helps to give potassium thiocyanate (which reduces blood pressure and stops hypertensive headaches), remove a diseased kidney (but be sure it is the right one) or cut the nerves that connect the abdominal blood vessels with the nervous system. Dr. Page modestly dismisses as still an unproved experiment his own discovery-a kidney extract injected to counteract angiotonin (TIME, March 3, 1941)-although it has effected some remarkable cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Down Blood Pressure | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...left him in a treetop. Once his Hindu nurse, a secret priestess of Siva, took him to a Siva temple, painted him black and stood him in a niche above the worshipers. Then she made him touch the foreheads of Hindu, Malayan, Chinese, Japanese workers. She believed he could cure them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Life | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Clevelanders also ask their own health questions. Sample question dropped into the museum's question box: I) "What causes snoring and how can it be cured?" Answer: it may be caused by obstruction such as adenoids, or by relaxation of the soft palate, or by position while sleeping; there is no sure cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Game | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Bermuda cure is the gentle placing of the palm of the hand or the foot upon the Gargantua and sweeping up the resultant mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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