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...hundred years ago this week, the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania signed "an act to encourage the establishing of an hospital for the relief of the sick poor of this province, and for the reception and cure of lunaticks." Thus was born the Pennsylvania Hospital, the oldest general hospital in the U.S.* Wrote Franklin later: "The institution has by constant experience been found useful, and ... I ... easily excused myself for having made use of some cunning...
...Such Thing as a Cure." Danny learned a lot in the hospital. Veteran gowsters taught him how to get a ration of white stuff. When he got out, Danny did not go home. He bummed around the country, doing odd jobs, lying, stealing, forging prescriptions-anything for a bang. Time & again he was picked up and convicted, usually to serve his sentence in the U.S. Public Health Service's hospital for narcotic addicts at Lexington, Ky. "They can withdraw you," says Danny, "but there is no such thing as a cure. You just have to stay away from...
Thorn performed his experiments at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston, where he is chief physician. Eight patients whose adrenal glands had been removed as a cure for vascular diseases and high blood pressure were cured and kept alive by the cortisone treatment...
Spoiled Rice. Beriberi in the rice bowl proved to be one of the simplest diseases to prevent and cure. It is caused by a vitamin (mainly BI) deficiency and can be stopped by putting enough BI in the diet.-There is plenty of BI in the outer coating of the rice grain and its seed germ, but both are removed as bran in the milling. Nearly all of the world's billion rice-eaters mill and polish their grain. They eat vitamin-poor white rice, and feed the vitamin-rich bran to their chickens...
...cure lies in a concrete island which would serve to channel cars turning onto Memorial Drive into a single path. The 90 degree turn which would be required by the presence of an island would proven the casual flow of traffic now present. Drivers would be forced to slacken speed to negotiate the turn, and the placement of a stop sign in clear view on the island would provide an imperative not now in existence. The present sign often goes unnoticed as drivers concentrate on unhesitating entry into the flow of vehicles, and its relocation would be just as effective...