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Since osteopathy was founded by an M.D. named Andrew T. Still in 1874, it has steadily moved away from Still's reliance on the manipulation of bones, muscles and ligaments as a cure for all manner of aches and agues. The Lightning Bone Setter, as Still was known, thought that "the human engine is God's medical drugstore," but the average osteopath today prescribes more drugs for his patient than the average M.D. and uses musculoskeletal therapy as only an adjunct to surgery, X rays, serums...
...toward relieving signs of anxiety. For depression, psychiatrists are now prescribing the psychic energizers, of which half a dozen, such as Marplan and Niamid, have won fairly general acceptance. But talking it out in psychotherapy is generally recognized as the only measure that offers the possibility of a true cure. There is still controversy as to the value of different types of treatment, especially between the advocates of the analytic schools and the psychiatrists who favor shorter, more "directive" therapy. There is some question as to whether guilt feelings should be relieved in all cases. Dr. May reports that diluting...
...Socialist bent on electing Norman Thomas. In the '50s he became a conservative and began writing sophisticated, neo-orthodox epistles to the agnostics. Tacking with such skill with each decade's winds of doctrine, Fitch almost manages to be a symbol of what he wants to cure...
Called up to Capitol Hill last week to appear before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, the Administration's top economic-policy officials reported a "consensus'' that the economy would start turning up in April. But a basic disagreement reared up in testimony on the cause and cure of unemployment...
...classmate who is a research physician. As a doctor for personnel at New York Hospital-Cornell, she spends a lot of time telling nurses and student nurses when to stay in bed. But last week Dr. Diehl was dragging around after almost a month of futile attempts to cure herself of an unidentified virus...