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Dominated by "guilt, fear, and loneliness"-already, in short, exhibiting the characteristic ailments of his era-Arthur at the age of ten discovered all by himself the characteristic cure of his generation. He decided, after reading the story in which Baron Munchausen yanks himself out of the mire by the hair of his own head, that he could save his own soul in the same...
...pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the biological sciences the clamor is for a cure for cancer rather then an understanding of the processes of growth normal and abnormal. In the physical sciences some of our best men are now spending long hours on military problems. This is a national necessity, but a loss to the advance of science. Technology and medicine have made enormous...
However he goes about his cure, the addict who finally gives up tobacco will recognize "an accession of high spirits, energy, appetite and sexual potency, with recession of coughing...
...Johnston expects to see few reformed smokers until doctors themselves wake up to tobacco's dangers. "About 80% of us are smokers," he estimates sadly, "and we behave collectively like an addict . . . Radical cure of tobacco smoking lies in its prevention and tobacco smoking is no more difficult to prevent than opium smoking. Our duty is plain...
...Shot Cure? The big task has been to find a drug which would not only suppress active malaria, but cure the disease by destroying the parasites during the periods when they hide in the body tissues, so that there can be no more relapses. And it should be something that can be taken once, or for a short time, and then forgotten. The Army medics knew that in the G.I.s returning from Korea for discharge they had a perfect test sample of men who would forget about "malaria discipline" as soon as they got home...