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...Hard Cure. In Kansas City, Kans., Nick Albert Isaacs confessed that he had attempted a bank robbery because he needed money to make good a bad check...
When the digestive system begins to digest itself, the result is ulcers. Doctors have tried everything from soup substitutes to surgery, but have found no sure prevention or cure. Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals. Finding that the hormone cured ulcers in animals, he began using it five years ago on human beings...
...between ulcers. After treatment, their average symptom-free period rose to a little over ten months; two patients have gone four years, nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure. He still does not know just what there is in enterogastrone that makes it work. He is now giving it by mouth (14 to 28 pills a day) as well as by injection (six shots a week...
...Pound of Cure. In Baltimore, the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous moved into new offices in the Bromo-Seltzer building...
...cost extra. The mass of mentally ill, in their lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation, have nowhere to go but the state institutions. Some of these are good, some not much better than Hogarth's 18th Century Bedlam, but few of them can do much to cure their patients. Because of lack of money, modern psychiatry is an all-too-rare visitor in the state hospitals...