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...University Extension Course, given for the first time this year, played to a mixed audience of both wets and drys. It tries to teach them that "benders, binges, and buts" are a disease, and as a disease are subject to treatment, encouragement, and cure...
Medical science has a jawbreaking name but no treatment and no sign of a cure for a mysterious wasting of the muscles. The disease called progressive muscular dystrophy is by no means rare: estimates of U.S. victims range from 100,000 to 200,000. Last week, the recently formed Muscular Dystrophy Association met in Manhattan, decided to try to raise $250,000, largely to push research by Dr. Ade T. Milhorat at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Its slogan: "Give hope to the hopeless...
...fast-paced, easy-to-read The Other Side of the Bottle, Anderson calls himself a "dry drunkard." He says: "I know that if I live to be as old as an elephant, I shall never be able to take a drink in safety." Technically, there is no "cure" for alcoholism so that a discharged patient can say like other men, "I can take it or leave it alone." However, if the cause of the compulsion to drink can be tracked down, it can often be rooted out by mental treatment. In Anderson's case, the unquenchable thirst...
Eight long years later, Kansas decided to overhaul its mental hospitals with the help of the Menninger Clinic. Active treatment, designed to cure patients and return them to a place in society, was substituted for passive, hopeless "patient care." That was how Mrs. X met Dr. James M. Mott Jr. Young (29), redheaded Psychiatrist Mott found her amazingly spry for a woman of 72 who had been pent up for 17 years. She had enough energy to badger him unmercifully with her delusions. But soon it appeared that his regular visits gave her a sense of security. Dr. Mott...
Admitting that they are no closer to finding a cure for polio, a team of Brooklyn doctors last week reported notable success with a treatment which relieves the pain and helps get patients out of the hospital sooner. The drug they use is Priscoline (which expands blood vessels and speeds up circulation). Dr. Emil Smith and five colleagues tested it last year on 663 patients at the Kingston Avenue Hospital...