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...reliability: ¶ Any deliberate misrepresentations, falsifications, or omissions of material facts. ¶Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion. ¶Any adjudication of insanity, or treatment for serious mental or neurological disorder without satisfactory evidence of cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Tightened Security | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...turned into disappointing failures. As reports on isoniazid piled up, doctors began to suspect trouble. They observed that some strains of tubercle bacilli quickly learned to live with the drug, and they worried lest the new bacilli lead to varieties of TB that might be harder than ever to cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fears Allayed | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Last week in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Victor P. Wordsworth reported that B-6 can also cure a much more common complaint: an overdose of alcohol. "A typical case," wrote Wordsworth, "was a woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Shots for the Half-Shot | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...boxing with the feet, having babies without doctors standing on your head to make your hair grow." But all these techniques were useless unless the patient practiced the Master's main belief-"that . . . there is but one disease: impurity of the blood" for which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis, baldness, dyspepsia, tartar diabetes bunions, and the cigarette, liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Cure. In Manchester, England, Steel-worker Edward Eckersley, who hit his 61-year-old mother on the head with an ax, was only put on probation after a detective told the court: "She suffers from high blood pressure and he genuinely believed the old wives' story that a blow on the head would relieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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