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...Roman Catholicism, said the dean, it "is a very successful method of mind cure . . . But with its arrogant exclusiveness and the submission of the intellect to authority, this totalitarian religion, formidable as it is, can never win the sympathy of any liberal...
...Aquila, he arranged a series of instructive meetings with progressive people that kept the young man fully occupied. For Anisetta and himself, the professor set up a cozy week in the country. Before she went off, Anisetta wrote a note that she thought would surely bring Aquila in pursuit, cure him of being progressive once & for all: "Have gone to live in sin for a week with Professor Lissom, back Tuesday lunch-your loving wife A." Uncle Giorgio thought the note would be enough, too, but it wasn't. After all, jealousy was bourgeois...
...empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous area of jungle. Ellen was horrified when Aganza's primitive cure for a psychiatric case turned out to be a kick in the backside, but it seemed to work...
Last week Poolad Gurd was the marvel of Teheran, where a kindly member of Iran's royal family had brought him for an operation to cure his twisted spine. "If the operation is successful," said Poolad's doctor, "he may again be the strongest man in the world." Poolad himself was confident. While awaiting the knife, he lay across three hospital beds placed side by side, flirting with a petite nurse and considering an offer from a U.S. circus...
Apart from battle wounds, the greatest medical problems in Korea today are malaria, dysentery and flies. This month the Army brought out a new drug, a large white pill which seems to be both a preventive and cure for malaria, and has to be taken only once a week. Halazone tablets [to purify water], which were used in the last war, offer protection against one source of dysentery. DDT is effective against the flies, but so far it has been in critical supply in Korea, and most soldiers have scratched themselves into infections from the maddening bites...