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...pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
Last week Congress ignored President Eisenhower's search for a way to cure crop surpluses. Instead, without a record vote, House members whooped through a bill permitting sale abroad of $1 billion in farm surpluses, plus famine relief gifts of $300 million more. So hot was the fervor to unload that Congressmen struck from the bill a provision for "reasonable precautions" against any smashing of normal trade patterns by U.S. dumping abroad...
Somewhat closer to Huxley's goal is a new drug called Meratran, hailed by its makers as a "pink pill to cure the blues.'' Developed by the William S. Merrell...
Victorian aunts had their own cure for the neurotic. "Fiddlesticks," they would cry, tapping a silver-headed cane firmly on the ground. "Just pull yourself together, dear, and you'll be all right." This outlook, combined with some Nietzschean notions about will power, is the essence of the psychological method practiced by Chicago's Dr. Abraham Low. Vienna-born Dr. Low, 63, who is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, heads a growing movement (2,000 members) called Recovery, Inc., and dedicated to a kind of correspondence-school psychotherapy...
...Scull of Smith, Kline & French (the U.S. manufacturers), patients who were formerly violent or withdrawn lie "molded to the bed." When a doctor enters the room, they sit up and talk sense with him, perhaps for the first time in months. There is no thought that chlorpromazine is any cure for mental illness, but it can have great value if it relaxes patients and makes them accessible to treatment. The extremely agitated or anxious types often give up compulsive behavior, a surface symptom of their illness. It is, says Dr. Scull, as though the patients said, "I know there...