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...Shall Tear Down." To cure the economy, Lonardi proposed austerity and sacrifice, combined with economic freedom. "We shall tear down the absurd apparatus of interfering measures," he said. "We shall decisively encourage farm production . . . We shall busy ourselves with power production and transport . . . We shall cut wasteful expenditures...
...Cure for the Enigma. The head-reading business began (the start seems somehow familiar) with a Vienna doctor who had some strange and original notions about the nature of man. He was Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who made the simple discovery that "character was the brain." From this it was a simple step to decide that if one knew what went on on the surface of the brain, one would know what went on underneath. Before long there was a little chart dividing the brain into 37 faculties, each doing its little bit to help...
...usual, reform made itself most felt among the helpless-notably criminals, lunatics and children. There were phrenological theories on how to run jails, cure madmen and bring up kids. U.S. schoolteachers testified that they no longer needed the rod because they conducted their classes on phrenological lines. Soon half the adolescents in the U.S. were guiltily fingering their Bump of Amativeness. Good men in a hundred small towns were prospecting their scalps for favorable bumps, or stealthily sliding over the depressions where the good green hills of spirituality should have been...
Mono is a curable disease. The cure is, however, most exasperating. All the doctor can do is prescribe bed rest averaging two weeks and an adequate diet. Occasionally he may use antibiotics to combat secondary complications which invade the weakened body, but these drugs do not attack the disease itself...
Infectious mononucleosis is a relatively unellucidated disease. The symptoms are both physically weakening and demoralizing. No one knows the cause and only the body can cure it. All the doctor and patient can do, is to give the body as much help as possible...