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...with a salve containing N-methyl-colchicamid, Dr. Lettré told the Paris gathering. In the confusion of postwar Germany he could not keep tabs on them well enough to be sure that any had been free of the disease for five years (the minimum acceptable for a cancer "cure"), but several whose cancers disappeared had been free for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From the Autumn Crocus | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...Westcott was trying to find a cure for certain types of anemia. He noted that the odors of vitamin B and of asparagus, usually noticeable in the urine, were greatly decreased when his patients were taking chlorophyll-A (one of the two major chlorophyll fractions). This gave him the idea that chlorophyll might work in the body, through metabolic processes, to deodorize bad breath and perspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Sweeter Smell | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...powers and efficiency, by making the individual relive former painful experiences to "discharge" their evil power. According to dianetics' discoverer, L. (for Lafayette) Ron (for Ronald) Hubbard: "The hidden source of all psychosomatic ills and human aberration has been discovered and skills have been developed for their invariable cure." Sample ills: arthritis, allergies, asthma, some coronary difficulties, eye trouble, ulcers, migraine headaches, sex deviations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Two Minds | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...reaction against such social destructiveness, says Demant, the modern world is turning from capitalism toward various kinds of collectivism. In its religious implications, this reaction is as fatal as the disease it would cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Will Civilization Survive? | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...passion on the spectators' dull, ordered lives. All that keeps him from writing a really first-class novel is an unfortunate tendency to borrow overmuch from the verbal mannerisms of Neighbor William Faulkner. But there is nothing wrong with Novelist Foote that a little more literary independence cannot cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime of Passion | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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