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Confident of success, Candidate Smith said: "For many years I've worked to cure. I now come before the people to ask them to kill, so that the war shall end, and end quickly...
Many prospective draftees whose health is impaired because of lack of medical attention in civilian life could be cured, but only two ways have been suggested to make them acceptable to the Army. Neither way is promising. One way, a plan for "rehabilitation" of rejected men, was proposed last fortnight by Colonel Samuel Joseph Kopetzky, new president of the New York State Medical Society. He suggested that the Army provisionally induct all men with "remediable defects" such as hernia, bad teeth, venereal disease, etc., and establish hospitals to cure them. But the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee...
Gallstones. About one-third of all elderly women have gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
...doctors are frankly pessimistic about both types of ulcer, for they arise from a nervous temperament. "Often the only really effective cure for an ulcer," they wrote, "would be an annuity." Great hope for ulcer victims lies in development of new chemicals which prevent the stomach from producing too much acid (TIME, April...
...possible cure for stomach ulcers was last week announced by an eminent physiologist, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern University. Most doctors hold that ulcers are caused by an overactive stomach, which constantly gushes acid, erodes its own walls. For years Dr. Ivy has tried to curb this acid formation. To the members of the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago last week he described a hormone which seems to turn the trick: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...