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President Taylor divided the educated woman into three categories: 1) the "co-ed type: gay, happy, extroverted, and judging success by the number of men who seek her company; 2) the Helen Hokinson type: intelligent, educated woman commenting on a world she does not fully understand--she would cure society with a lending library and Norman Cousins; 3) the ideal type: doing whatever she has to do with grace, whatever she wants to do with enjoyment; she is interested in her education and her life...
From the Middle Ages, when sticks were used to "beat the devil" out of mental patients, through the middle '30s, when electric and insulin shock therapy began, physical treatment of the insane relied on rude methods. Even now, shock "cures" may be worse than the disease: they often fail to cure, and sometimes the patient breaks a jaw or crushes his backbone in violent, convulsive spasms...
...this formidable treatise, Analyst Bergler wrestles with the problem of the writer who has copy paper, a late-model portable, an old farm in Connecticut, a nice wife, the right agent, and no ideas. The fellow need not worry, since Analyst Bergler finds that he can cure nearly 100% of such cases, and says so in a brash passage recalling the palmy days of the old sure-cure Indian remedies...
...received numerous honors for his work with the liver cure. In 1928, he was given an honorary Doctorate of of Science by Harvard University and, during the same year, the Association of American Physicians gave him the Kober gold medal. In this country, he has been awarded the John Scott medal of the city of Philadelphia and the gold medal of the Humane Society of Massachusetts...
...remedied. There was no doubt that with its technical and financial resources and social resourcefulness, the U.S. could find a sound remedy. But the hasty enactment of unworkable legislation, creating an unwieldy bureaucracy, was more likely to impair than improve the nation's health. Such a cure would be worse than the disease...