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Beating, as prescribed by Carroll's Duchess in Alice in Wonderland, was not recommended as a cure. Allergic children, think Drs. Miller and Baruch, are like cornered animals, and thus suffer enough. In common with other children, they often feel rejected by their mothers and become hostile to their parents. Hostility, according to Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves...
...Sure Cure. Since the military junta of General Manuel Odria took over Peru last fall, the government has been worried about the public effects of coca-chewing. In desperation, it finally renewed an old plea to the U.N. Economic and Social Council to send a commission to work on the problem. Callao's international operators speeded up their shipments to clear out big inventories. But domestic dealers were unworried. Said one: "If you're poor, you're hungry. Pichicato fixes that. If you're rich, you want an aphrodisiac. Pichicato fixes that...
...prose, Mr. Farrell's effectiveness will increase, and so will the number of his readers." Either the publishers let Fadiman's prayer go unheeded or Farrell refused to submit to the operation. More than ten years and twelve books later, the Farrell prose is still a better cure for insomnia than almost anything else between covers. His new novel...
...Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
...stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors...