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Dicoumarin, just as effective as heparin, is far cheaper and may be given by mouth. Dr. Silbert predicted that dicoumarin will soon be used not only as a cure for thrombi, but as a routine preventive in all major operations and confinements. At present it is used in the Mayo Clinic, the University of Wisconsin, and by Drs. Irving Sherwood Wright and Andrew Gabriel Prandoni of Columbia, who made a technical report on it last fortnight...
There is no known specific medical cure. Preventives include delousing by shaving the body and bathing with creosol soap; sterilizing clothes and bedclothes; vaccination, which may not immunize but usually lessens the severity of attacks and reduces mortality. Best treatment of typhus involves sponge baths, irrigations, a soft high-caloric diet (nasal feeding if a victim is too nauseated to eat), open air if the climate permits...
...Cure. At four, this boy still sucked his thumb and wet his bed, was afraid of dogs and so timid that he accepted protection from his two-year-old brother in fights with other children. But the mother responded to institute therapy, which encouraged mothers and children in outside interests. The boy, when last seen at age 15, was doing well at school, was a good swimmer, had a girl, showed every promise of leading a normal life...
Funerals became strangely frequent. Always first in processions was Pierre Guichard, dignified beadle of the Cérilly church. Next, the cure, sprinkling holy water with an energy suggesting joyous abandon. Behind him came the coffin bearers, their spirits lighter than the heavy box they bore. Then the black-veiled mourners, bearing their grief with an odd furtiveness...
...failed to keep peace in the world that was ours to rule ten years ago? If we're going to make our fighting mean anything, we've got to answer these questions honestly and reasonably. We've got to be' very sure that in winning the war we'll cure the fundamental causes that have twice split the world into two armed camps...