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Electric shock treatments have apparently been successful in treating some forms of insanity, but doctors are beginning to suspect that the "cure" may be worse than the disease. The treatment, a jolting shot of high-powered current through the brain, causes convulsions that may dislocate the patient's jaw, break his bones, or even kill...
...group of leading U.S. psychiatrists, headed by Dr. William C. Menninger, has now issued a stern warning against "abuses" of electric shock therapy. The psychiatrists believe that shock treatments have become a fad and are being prescribed recklessly (and ineffectually) as a cure-all for too many different neuroses...
...Cure. In Sturbridge, Mass., George Martel conceded that termites had won a battle but not the war: he doused his house with gasoline, burned it to the ground...
...William Strang, was expected to ask Washington for relaxation on certain clauses in the loan agreement. The British wanted to continue empire trade preference and to protect dwindling dollar balances by restrictions on the convertibility of sterling into dollars. At best, such concessions could only relieve, not cure, Britain's economic ills. The circle of economic conferences came back to Paris' Grand Palais and the Marshall approach because of one appalling fact about the postwar world economy: Britain and other nations last year bought $21 billion worth of goods in the U.S.; the U.S. bought from them only...
...depended on his health, he said. Repeated trips to the hospital and one major operation had failed to cure his chronic high blood pressure. He was headed for another physical checkup on Sept. 1. If the doctor ordered him to give up one of his jobs, he would keep the Cabinet job and let the committee chairmanship...