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Qualification. In London, the buyer of a want-ad pleaded: "Can anyone recommend a cure for smoking for a gentleman being impoverished by the cost of tobacco? No suggestions calling for will power, please...
There is still no drug cure for rheumatic heart disease. Patients need complete rest and good nursing care, perhaps for many months. Under the Montefiore plan, mothers are taught to keep a chart of temperature, pulse, etc. A visiting nurse calls regularly to give instruction in home nursing and to check up for the doctor. A dietician gives advice on proper meals...
...Cures & Movie Stars. Twenty years ago, few would have walked across the street to listen to Alfred Korzybski. Today, as founder of a whole new system of thought called general semantics,* he has hundreds of followers all-over the world, and the respect of many scientists and scholars. Disciples have written articles on his subject ranging from "General Semantics and Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd...
...child may have one leg shorter than the other because of injury, disease, or accident of growth. Whatever the cause, the cure has puzzled surgeons. They have tried various methods of evening up the legs-from shortening the long leg to lengthening the short one. Recently doctors have been trying to slow, without entirely stopping, the growth of the longer leg. But the timing is tricky and the methods have been clumsy...
...showing the boy's cure, the picture also vividly reveals the source of his illness. An oblique lecture to parents who may forget how easily children can develop a sense of rejection by feeling unwanted and unloved, the film ends with this moral: all the clinics and psychiatrists in the nation can only make children "a little better able to take care of themselves ... a little better able to live usefully and generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed...